Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 17:45:48 +1000 (EST) From: Enno Davids <enno.davids@metva.com.au> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Chasing the kiddies (was: Named Keep crashing) Message-ID: <200104040745.RAA08839@metva.com.au>
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| > | > Is there any way to trace who is doing it? | > Running tcpdump with certain filter settings to avoid logging everything and filling the disk? | > | | Dont bother... Just install the fixed version of bind... | Every kid with a script and an internet connection is probably | doing this to you!!! | This response kind of bothers me. There was a time when everytime I could sanely trace spammers I emailed abuse@wherever.was.relevant to advise them. Similarly, when people probed Apache I'd send off adivsory emails. But only last weekend as I watched yet another clown with a cable modem perform the 1/2 hourly scan of my network for open RPC ports I wondered why I (and I presume others) were no longer doing this. Clearly the sheer volume of morons is one reason. Is anyone still doing this and getting satisfaction? There was a time when if you probed the Apache on my machine it winnuke'd you back. Moral issues aside, there _was_ a great deal of satisfaction there... Needless to say, there's little mileage in this now (damned M$ service packs!). :) Enno. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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