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From: "Colin Raven" <me@colin-raven.com>
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On Saturday February 7 2004 at 10:44, Mathew Seaman responded:
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:22:06AM +0100, Colin Raven wrote:
>
>> Connection attempt to TCP 217.xxx.xxx.xxx:6881 from 12.215.41.59:1519
>> flags:0x02
>
>> The well known ports number list from iana.org shows port 1519 as
>> follows:
>> vpvd            1518/udp    Virtual Places Video data
>> vpvc            1519/tcp    Virtual Places Video control
>>
>> but there's no mention of 6881.
>
> Ports 6881-6889 are used by BitTorrent.  It's probably not a malicious
> attack.

Ah, thanks for that indeed!
It's odd though that iana.org doesn't list this fact in their (usually
invaluable) port number list.
OK, my mind is now at rest a bit more than before! :-)

Regards, Thanks & Greetings from the Netherlands,
-Colin