Stephen Gran wrote:

>This one time, at band camp, Hal said:
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>>I run a potato server on an ethernet behind a firewall connected by dsl to the 
>internet.  The only service exposed is ftp,  In the middle of last night ippl 
>reported an ftp connection attempt from 192.168.1,1   The network behind my firewall 
>uses 192.168.75.xx addressses for one Redhat and a couple of Windows machines as well 
>as the debian ftp server.  Any idea where the 192.168.1.1 attempt is coming from?  Is 
>it likely to have been spoofed over the internet as part of an attack?
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>It may have been, or it may have been somebody else on a LAN, with IP
>addressing schema 192.168.1.x, who forgot to use passive-ftp.  I guess
>you'd have to look around and see what they tried to do.
>HTH,
>Steve
>
I thought class C networks were non-routable.



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