I have a client that does this with firewall exceptions. They just randomly kill a bunch of them every so often, then I get people calling me freaking out because some interface we haven't changed in 2 years suddenly quits working and now they can't do something important like change a vendor's bank account or process journal entries or whatever other important task they've moved to some r-slurred SaaS product lately. The whole company freaks out about it for half a day with dozens of people involved, then some butthole in networking is like "oh that got browned out sorry lol"
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fricking why? there is no advantage in having an action plan for your port getting blocked, the only fix and only course of action is to unfrick the port.
the whole point of this random 30 thing is to ensure customers and intermediaries make adequate plans to respond to an unexpected cert revocation
a better system IMO would be to guarantee that every cert gets randomly revoked and reissued once during it's valid period this will actually force people to use suitable automation unless they are so small-time they can handle randomly going offline every 6 weeks or so.
Like, I'd think they could just put a packet counter on the rule for a year or so (definitely at least a month, but there could also be some things used once annually) and see if it counts any traffic.
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I have a client that does this with firewall exceptions. They just randomly kill a bunch of them every so often, then I get people calling me freaking out because some interface we haven't changed in 2 years suddenly quits working and now they can't do something important like change a vendor's bank account or process journal entries or whatever other important task they've moved to some r-slurred SaaS product lately. The whole company freaks out about it for half a day with dozens of people involved, then some butthole in networking is like "oh that got browned out sorry lol"
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fricking why? there is no advantage in having an action plan for your port getting blocked, the only fix and only course of action is to unfrick the port.
the whole point of this random 30 thing is to ensure customers and intermediaries make adequate plans to respond to an unexpected cert revocation
a better system IMO would be to guarantee that every cert gets randomly revoked and reissued once during it's valid period this will actually force people to use suitable automation unless they are so small-time they can handle randomly going offline every 6 weeks or so.
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Its to try to identify exceptions they don't need anymore and it is exactly as dumb of an idea as it sounds.
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Not surprised that you're incredibly stupid as well as annoying
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There should be an address you can bind to for internal only services.
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Why are you assuming that someone running a vendor install script is competent to set all the security options correctly?
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Like, I'd think they could just put a packet counter on the rule for a year or so (definitely at least a month, but there could also be some things used once annually) and see if it counts any traffic.
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um Here they want the longest certs they can because they think automation is too difficult and takes away their easy Jira points, and
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