[Lilux-help] telnet or ssh through coward firewalls

[Michael Scherer]

On Saturday 24 July 2004 17:12, Jay Christnach wrote:
> Especially the Windows-Sysadmins poor-sports tend to block everything
> they think isn't useful to the "normal" user with their clickorama
> firewalls. Why should they block an ssh outgoing connection?

Well, if you have legitimate reason to use so, just ask them to open the 
port.
But to me, blocking outgoing connection is a good way to prevent a lot 
of attacks, like worms ( where would be slammer if udp was 
filtered ? ) , or exploit on weird port. Or even on normal port.

So, there is nothing wrong here. Even if this is really annoying.

-- 
Mickaël Scherer
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