On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Andy Dills wrote: > > > You don't have to. This is why I never understood why people care so much > > about probing. If you do a good job with your network, probing will have > > zero affect on you. All the person probing can do (regardless of their > > intent) is say "Gee, I guess there aren't any vulnerabilities with this > > network." > > When I hooked up my first server on the internet back in 1993, I was kind > of shocked that some far away stranger was trying to log into my POP3 > server. Unwanted connections have been a fact of life on the internet > probably since its beginning.
Maybe so, but I think any net admin should care if his hosts are being probed, even if he is under the mistaken assumtion that those hosts are invulnerable. If I see several ports being probed, I drop an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It may well be innocent (I do it myself for valid reasons at times), but it's good to let the respective abuse departments know what's going on, for two reasons: 1) It gives them a heads up to keep an eye out for other "suspicious" activity from that host/user. 2) it usually lets that user know you're alert. Call it "profiling", only based on "curiosity" instead of ethnicity :) James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =========================================================================
