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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:47:36 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mit@mitayai.net>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, tjk@tksoft.com, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: strange messages
Message-ID:  <20010308094732.M45561@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBIEGPMLMKDBMMICFNOEJAELAA.mit@mitayai.net>; from mit@mitayai.net on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:38:46AM -0500
References:  <20010308094055.L45561@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> <NEBBIEGPMLMKDBMMICFNOEJAELAA.mit@mitayai.net>

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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:38:46AM -0500, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote:
> if someone was trying to exploit your machine, wouldn't you want to know
> where they were doing it from, especially wrt inside or outside the network?

This information could be spoofed, and even then it doesn't tell you
who's doing it.

I'd hope you have a good firewall anyways.  The only reason I've never
seen this message on my own system is because my firewall blocks it.

-- 
wca

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