On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Bill Lavalette noc/sec Administrator wrote:
> The Bottom Line is this. YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS SCANNING ANYONE'S
> MACHINE!!!!! unless it is requested by the owner/company
>
> its that simple folks the bullshit "it causes no harm" is moronic one
> nmap scan can produce 8000 email alerts seems to me that is a denial of
> service. why because a) you had no business to scan my machines b) you
> were not asked to scan my machines and c) your actions spurred off another
> action. so with this secondary and "unknown" action you have committed a
> denial of service have a nice day!
You know, in one way I agree with you, because I don't like people
scanning my machines either, but the 8000-email argument is pretty silly.
Just because you didn't have the sense to write an aggregation component
to your notifcation software and YOU caused yourself to get 8000 spams,
doesn't mean you should qualify the scan as a DoS. People who write
monitoring software should consider that these sort of events are going to
happen and if anything, at LEAST buffer your notifications.
-john
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