On Friday 22 February 2002 18:09, guitarlynn wrote: > I'm on Cox/RR with the same experience. I've been port > scanned by around 5 different ip's in the last week. I'll > probably go down to the local office Monday and see > if I can assert a little more influence in person. > Most of their security is actually done at the national office > in Atlanta, who happens to be looking for a security admin > with WAN experience right now. Maybe I can show a > little influence and possibly a job somewhere ....... ;)
I went down and spent some quality time with my local Cox office today. After several levels of tech support specialists, I finally had a nice conversation with someone who could actually read my logs. As I guessed, all [EMAIL PROTECTED] is handled by a small dept. in the home office of Atlanta and the local carrier never even finds out about such reports. I was told they get around 100 port scan reports a day, which is likely a rather low number considering the amount of clients that they serve, and the auto-responder emails are really just to buy some time until their department gets around to your report. I told them that a wait of several weeks really wasn't what I was hoping for and I was told that running LaBrea or a honey-pot would be unlikely to get me in any trouble at this point in time since Cox is planning to split from RoadRunner service in the upcoming months and implement something with more local control owned entirely by Cox. Hopefully it will be something UNIX like in the server pools when this time comes around, but I guess we'll see. The M$ mail-servers this time last year left me at a point that I could only receive email once a week for around two months :( Take it for what it's worth too you, but I don't imagine that the Cox abuse will be doing too much for residential customers w/o a long wait.... I went ahead and applied for a job in the abuse department anyway .... it sounded like fun ;) -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
