SagoNet warning / FYI

[Bill McGonigle]

On Sep 5, 2005, at 16:09, Drew Van Zandt wrote:

> The ports that we block are known to be used for proxy traffic,
> virus/worm traffic, and other known Internet vulnerabilities.

I'm glad to learn that proxies are vulnerabilities.  I didn't know that 
before the wizards at SagoNet bought that to your attention.

The beauty of their system is, eventually, every port will be blocked 
other than port 80 and 443.  Maybe you should do everything over 
SOAP...

I'd take this as a warning sign and find someone who can offer you a 
real Internet connection.  A good ISP will have real monitoring in 
place so they can monitor their network for real problems, not put up 
roadblocks in a lame attempt to prevent problems.  One has to wonder 
how they'd respond to a real problem if they don't have that kind of 
monitoring in place.  I've jumped ISP's three times so far, at least 
once for crap like this - currently I'm at 1&1 and they seem to know 
what's going on.  And I'm sure they'll shut off my network connection 
if my machine starts participating in a DDOS.

I don't mean to be overly harsh, but I've tried banging my head against 
similar walls before, for myself and clients, without success and at my 
expense.  So, I don't do that anymore.

-Bill
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