Hi, On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:25:39PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote:
> MediaOne (now AT&T) probes for open relays on port 25 frequently. In Silicon Valley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] cable poke NNTP port from 2 servers Their hostname was like authorized-scan.athome.net or something. (I got linuxconf, http, ftp, sunrpc port scanned but these seems to be from script kiddie.) I have closed most server port (1-1023) by ipchains by modifying ipmasq scripts. (It's on my web page as tar.gz) I think for home machines, firewall by ipchains are good enough and quite effective both for ISP relation and script kiddie protection. Good luck. Osamu -- + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + + === http://www.aokiconsulting.com ======= Cupertino, CA USA === +
