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Date:      Thu, 11 Feb 1999 17:44:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      jfesler@gigo.com
To:        tetsuhiro <tetsuhiro@tsuzuki.ne.jp>
Cc:        "isp@freebsd.org" <isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Someone sent me a security notice
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9902111739530.446-100000@heaven.gigo.com>
In-Reply-To: <36C37B77.4AD78E47@tsuzuki.ne.jp>

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> Yesterday I got a following message from someone via email.
> I don't know who he/she is.

You can usually use "whois -h whois.internic.net xxx.net" to see
who the official contacts are.

> 
> xxx@xxx.net wrote:
> >  from our log files:
> >
> >Feb  9 12:14:39 smoke kernel: IP fw-in deny eth1 UDP 152.226.76.37:1277 >206.30.145.4:31337 L=46
> >S=0x00 I=1816 F=0x0000 T=108
> >
> >  Times are -0500.  Please investigate this matter and take appropriate action.
> 
> What should I do?

Smells like a traceroute packet.  Even if it was meant to be malicious,
UDP is too easily spoofable.

> Frankly speaking I can not understand what he/she wrote.
> I'd like to know he/she got my email address also.

Probably something like either tracerouting to your IP address, and
looking up contact info for the listed domain name, or by using whois -h
whois.arin.net 152.226.76.37 to see what listed info was available that
way.



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