On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:13:42 +0200 Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > This is slightly offtopic, but I didn't got a relevant answer in other > places, so I thought lets ask my debian friends ;) > > I had my apache listening on port 445 for https connections, this > worked perfectly for a long time. Today I got a message from a user > stating that he couldn't get a connection. I have since then > reproduced the problem from a few domains. Then I checked everything: > firewall, apache logs, etc, but couldn't find a problem with my conf. > Could it be that there are some ISP's that are blocking 445? I found > some reference to DoS attacks on windows machines targeted at port > 445.. > I know it's rather silly to reply on your on post, but I did some more research... It seems that our M$ using friends have some problems. Win2k/XP have a filesharing protocol on 445, and because most users of M$ products are so enlightend to choose a blank admin password, this is a security issue. So apperently some ISP's have chosen to 'protect' their users from these attacks and are dropping these packets... grts Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
