[olug] @home scans

Vincent vraffensberger at home.com
Tue Jul 11 02:08:58 UTC 2000


> In their "defense," such as it is, I've never caught them scanning
> anything but port 119 which does jibe with their commitment made over
> the Usenet Death Penalty.  I've heard stories about them scanning for
> web servers. etc., but have no evidence that's so outside of a few news
> stories originating in California.
> 
> I find it irritating, though, and wish I could just stop them from doing
> it -- or do something equally irritating back.
> 
> Marc
> 
> --
I've also seen them scanning for dns server (port 53) and httpd (port
80).  Routing them to loopback seems like it would be the most irritable
thing to do.  That should probably make their software hang for some
time..

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