On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Chris Keladis wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible to detect telnet negotiation (OOB) going on and > drop the connection?
Several products at least used to do this- I recall the phrase "Not a typewriter" coming back from a relay test several years ago. > I agree with Paul however, these measures wont stop abuse of tcp/25, but > it makes an interesting thread at least :) Unfortunately it's curing the symptom not the disease. I'm also not sure that it wouldn't encourage more of the kiddies to get netcat if it were more pervasive. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
