Public Ethernet Connections

Chris Lott chrisl at muskox.alaska.edu
Fri May 29 09:31:52 EDT 1998


> To prevent this, you should
> block all traffic from your walk-in public network to port 25 (SMTP)
> of remote hosts and of your own mail hosts.  You should also disable
> relaying for that network on your own mail hosts, just to be on the
> safe side.


Doesn't this also prevent what is perhaps one of the top legitimate reasons
people might want to jack into the net in the first place?

c
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Chris Lott -- fncll at uaf.edu -- (907)474-6350
Instructional Technology Specialist
Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks



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