From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 26 15:58:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from slackerbsd.org (cn434050-d.wall1.pa.home.com [24.40.72.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E25A37B42C for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 76466 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Sep 2001 23:01:28 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:01:28 -0400 From: Carl Schmidt To: Brian Whalen Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: @home DNS server seems to be scanning my ports? Message-ID: <20010926190128.A15171@slackerbsd.org> Reply-To: Carl Schmidt References: <20010926151652.Y953@sonic.net> <20010926152429.F65459-100000@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010926152429.F65459-100000@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP-Key: http://slackerbsd.org/~carl/carl_schmidt.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 03:24:55PM -0700, Brian Whalen wrote: > It makes me feel so good when I see this in my logs though.. >=20 > Name: authorized-scan1.security.home.net > Address: 24.0.0.203 >=20 >=20 > Brian "Sonic" Whalen > Success =3D Preparation + Opportunity >=20 Let's think about this. You're an ISP, You pay for a news feed, Would you w= ant someone with a clue stealing your newsfeed and serving it to others for free or even worse for a fee? They are justified in scanning their own network whether you like it or not. It's kind of like complaining when I see someone scanning me for netbus or whatever -- after a while it gets old and doesn't really matter because tha= t's what I have a firewall for. --=20 Carl Schmidt Just like the pied piper led rats through the streets We dance like marionettes swaying to the symphony of destruction http://slackerbsd.org/ --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: fMOPU5oLlamsPyL8F4SNyT0hjZGgyrVw iQA/AwUBO7JeRywXrqm5p/cQEQImywCfaUX15qS3R4Ug/1dooimU1oQS9IIAoLJI YqeoFFvaql3nxyfolG93+dJK =RBPB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message