Re: @Home & Port Scan Activity

[Christopher Molnar <molnarc nebsllc com>]

What would be on port 33172 and 33532? 

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Steve wrote:

> @home scanned me last night at about midnite. Ports 80, 33172, 33532
> 
> Either their confused or their full of it!
> 
> Seve
> 
> On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Eric Wood wrote:
> > One user said they're doing it to prevent spam on their news servers.
> > Bullsh**!  They don't need to port scan everyone for nntp.  People use nntp
> > for valid reasons.  They need to detect mulitple news postings on their
> > server's end.  That's the best way to prevent spam.  They're creating IP
> > traffic, creating problems, and creating my ulser.
> > 
> > I'd like to have a little with that lady.  Who talked to her?  What's her
> > number?
> > -eric wood
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>
> > >Seriously folks, get a sense of scale. If they're bugging you, put a
> > >special case REJECT rule at the front of your firewall rules for them
> > >and forget it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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