Network Question

[Jonathan Hutchins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Batson" <rcb at kc.rr.com>

> Sounds as if Comcast at home is as responsive to this problem as is
> TimeWarner/AOL/RoadRunner --- "ignore it long enough and it will go
> away".

I really don't think I want RoadRunner or Comcast or @Home to be the ones
who decide what traffic is passed on the local network.

Do you?

What are they really supposed to do about it anyway?

Sure, they could try to identify machines that weren't patched and block
that port on that address, but that would create just about the same traffic
as the Code Red problem does in the first place - at least until attack day.

This is and should be an end-user problem.  The ISP's provide connectivity,
and if that connectivity includes port scans, so be it.

And really, can you see those people doing a subtle, non-intrusive,
technically astute solution on something like this?  If they could do that,
they could run a mail server.