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Date:      Mon, 8 Dec 1997 11:11:45 +1100 (EDT)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        proff@iq.org (Julian Assange)
Cc:        molter@logic.it, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [linux-security] New Program: Abacus Sentry - Port Scan Detector (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199712080012.QAA06040@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <wxg1o53ykt.fsf@profane.iq.org> from "Julian Assange" at Dec 8, 97 03:30:42 am

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In some mail from Julian Assange, sie said:
> 
> Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it> writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I though someone could be interested in this program, a port scanner
> > which seems more featureful than strobe (a port scanner in the
> > FreeBSD ports).
> > 
> > This program is developed on Linux but, as the author said, should
> > run on BSD variants also.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Marco Molteni
> > Computer Science student at the Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy.
> >                  "Whuffo you jump out of them airplanes?"
> 
> 
> Well, it's actually a port-scan detector, so I don't think the feature
> comparison via-a-vis strobe really stacks up :)

There's already a port scan detector in the source tree:
src/contrib/ipfilter/ipsd

although it's probably not in very good shape as it was written as a "proof
of concept" rather than to actually make it  work.

Darren



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