[NCLUG] port monitorer

[Mark C. Smith]

On Feb 19, 2001, Sean Reifschneider wrote the following with Subject "Re:...:

->On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 08:23:00PM -0700, Mark C. Smith wrote:
->>My firewall is blocking a needed port for running icq, and I'm having
->>a hard time finding it.  I realize icq is *supposed* to use
->
->I highly recommend that instead of just using an implicit "deny all" policy,
->that you add a "deny all and log" rule at the end of your chains -- that
->way you'll get a log of what's getting denied.  Makes life much easier.
->You'll probably find that you need to add some "deny but don't log" rules
->for dumping garbage like Windows boxes trying to call the mother ship and
->all though.


I laughed at this at first (and still think it's funny), but then the
thought occured to me, "do winbloze boxes try to contact microsoft?"
Seriously, I'd be interested in knowing, and if so, why?  



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