From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 18 6:26:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA1637B405 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 06:26:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C583743F1E for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 06:26:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B749FD1; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:26:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from cs.umu.se (h10n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.10]) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC1C99FAF; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:25:58 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3E2963E3.2020906@cs.umu.se> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:25:39 +0100 From: Paul Everlund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Cc: Bill Moran , Jim Freeze , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Possible attack? References: <20030117093453.A9304@freeze.org> <3E281AD7.6090807@potentialtech.com> <8110130376.20030118150739@dds.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 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 Alex wrote: > Dear/Beste Bill, > > Friday, January 17, 2003, 4:01:43 PM, you wrote: > > > I've seen the "anonymous FTP denied" off and on. I think that > > some folks just randomly attempt to connect to any FTP server > > they find in the hopes that there's cool stuff there. > > Or in the hopes that the can place some cool stuff there. Hmmm... Why not open up ones FTP for anonymous access, without any contents on it, then just sit and wait... Then, when there are some cool stuff uploaded, one closes the anonymous access and the uploader who tried to take advantage of you is screwed while you have got all the free (probably illegal though) stuff. :-) Have a nice weekend all! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message