From owner-freebsd-security Thu Dec 14 17:29:36 2000 From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 17:29:33 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu (daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu [129.64.3.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3B337B400 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:29:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (meshko@localhost) by daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA31350 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:29:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:29:31 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Kruk To: Subject: mindspring complains about intrusive port scans Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: meshko@daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi I got the following message from my DSL provider. I think that the logs they show are caused by me running ping and traceroute on some host on their network. (note that I've substituted my ip by xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in the logs just in case) So my questions are: a) is there any chance that I'm wrong and this log is not caused by ping/traceroute? b) can they accuse me of violating anything because I run traceroute? Sounds like bs to me... included message: