On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 14:22, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > 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...
Cox Cable did the same thing with port 80 soon after Code Red struck. Yet another reason why I hate MSFT and lusers. At the same time, they decided to be really anal and block port 25, too. Bah! -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "they love our milk and honey, but preach about another | | way of living" | | Merle Haggard, "The Fighting Side Of Me" | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
