Hi Scott

At 18:59 17/01/02 +0000, Scott C. Best wrote:
>Julian:
>         Hello again! Wow, you have some interesting log files. :)

I know - Months and months of nothing remarkable, then two things 
completely baffle me in a week. : )


> > I keep getting connection attempts on tcp port 21 from this particular
> > IP address.
> > <snip>
> > What do you think?  What action would you take?
>
>         You can see on www.incidents.org that port-21 scans are pretty
>popular this month: a few days ago, scans to that port were 23-percent
>of all submissions to DShield. Wow.

Crikey!  That's a good site, by the way.

>         If I were you, I'd definitely contact the administrator of the
>site. Most of the harmless scans are a one time thing; a script kiddy
>knocks on your door and moves on when they find it locked. If this
>person is repeatedly trying to FTP something from you...it may just
>be an honest misconfiguration. IE, someone had the 217.149.96.2
>address before you did, and was running an FTP server.

Thanks for the advice.

Regards

Julian

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