From owner-freebsd-security Sun Jun 13 10:26:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from tok.qiv.com (tok.qiv.com [205.238.142.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 762661519C for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 10:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdn@acp.qiv.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (MailHost/Current) with UUCP id MAA61831 for security@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 12:26:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA00686 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 12:25:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jdn@acp.qiv.com) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 12:25:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Jay Nelson To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Connection attempts to port 7 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Recently, I've been getting _many_ attempts to connect to the echo service (which I have disabled) -- mostly non-resolvable addresses that disappear somewhere behind doubleclick.net. Does anyone know of a legitimate reason why they would do this? -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message