[tech] Firewall

[Paul Marinceu]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:13:13PM +0900, Matt Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:56:05PM +0900, Paul Marinceu wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:13:38PM +0900, David Adam wrote:
> > > On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Paul Marinceu wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > So I was nmapping access.ucc.asn.au the other day and was quite surprised
> > > > when it returned an endless list of open ports. Couple of questions:
> > > >
> > > > - why is that so? (something to do with Bright's firewall or a UCC thing?)
> > > > - if it's by design, then what's the purpose?
> > > 
> > > All ports on ssh.ucc.asn.au (which is a CNAME to access.ucc.asn.au)
> > > are DNATed to martello:22.
> > > 
> > > The reasoning is left as an exercise to the reader.
> > 
> > Right :)
> > 
> > But what about IMAP/IMAPS? Is that no longer available on ssh.ucc.asn.au?
> 
> IMAPS, SSL webmail, POPS, and SMTPS (not SMTP) use
> secure.ucc.asn.au. 

Too right! Totally my mistake I actually knew that but got the
hostnames confused.

Thanks Matt