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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Spoofed connections on port 13223??
To: jkb@best.com (Jan B. Koum)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 07:33:06 +1000 (EST)
Cc: brett@lariat.org, security@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19981013135826.A22942@best.com> from "Jan B. Koum" at Oct 13, 98 01:58:26 pm
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In some mail from Jan B. Koum, sie said:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:06:58AM -0600, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote:
> > CERT? Don't bother. They'll respond several months after it's too late
> > and say, "Oh, dear."
> > 
> > --Brett
> > 
> > 
> > At 08:23 PM 10/13/98 +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> >  
> > >People, I can understand wanting to bring it to an informal forum, but
> > >if you seriously think you are under attack then you should contact the
> > >relevant CERT and talk with them about it.  It may be that what you're
> > >seeing is part of a "bigger picture" that you can't see.
> > >
> > >Darren
> > 
> > 
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> 
>         I think what Darren was refering to was a situation where an attack
>         means nothing to you, but if you contact CERT, they would say: Ohh
>         yeah, we had another 239 calls - this is a large scale attack.

They don't say that, to you.


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