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Re: Needin’ some assistance!
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:12:48 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Richard Noeckel writes:
> > This is exactly what I'm lookin’ for. :)
> > Just wonderin’ is the link broken… :(
> > http://www.suave.net/~dave/bw.cgi
> > Or is the entire site down as well?
> > http://www.suave.net/~dave/greenburg2.cgi
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> It's ugly. Unfortunately, due to the "Red Worm Threat", our friends at
> MediaOne decided that they'd shut down port 80 (the http port) so that we
> wouldn't be hit by the threat. Of course we run Apache under Linux, so we
> never would be, but they still refuse to turn it back on.
You think that's stupid; one of our major (Major!) regional providers,
Telus, responded to the "Red Worm Threat" by arbitrarily (and without
warning or notification) refusing SMTP access to a large variety of domains.
This included Chris' Graysage domain, which runs our mailing list, so a
couple people got chopped off our mailing list until Telus removed it's head
from it's posterior.
The phrase that comes to mind is "Holy Misguided, Batman!"
James
(who works for a company that techinically got "hit", but like smart people,
atually *apply* security patches, and wasn't affected.)
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| (...) SMTP?!? gah, they just chose a port in random to turn off?? Reminds me of our provider during y2k - decided to "play it safe" and shut down the whole network... so they did that, but apparently were so incompetent that they _failed_ to shut it (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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