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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: John <papalia@UDel.Edu>
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Subject: Re: tcpd: unknown@ip 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:58:13 EST."
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On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:58:13 EST, John wrote:

> I've actually gotten four such emails, all from different IP's.  I'm just
> not sure how to interpret that message, and how much I'm supposed to worry
> about it?

Worry that someone's probing your machine.  Don't worry if you're
convinced that the machine is tightly locked up and doesn't offer
traditionally exploitable services to the outside world. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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