On Wed, 16 Jan 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 04:13, Mark Weaver wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:39 am, Stephen Kuhn scribbled nervously: > > > On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 13:09, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > > That would certainly explain all the crack attempts at my system over the > > > > last few months. Hell! I don't even bother going to the whois query > > > > servers any more I've become so familiar with the IP addy's that are > > > > showing up in my log files. I just write the owner of the netblock and > > > > tell'em to put those dogs on a shorter leash cause I don't like'em > > > > screwin around at the doors trying to find a weakness somewhere. > > > > - -- > > > > Mark > > > > > > You've actually got people trying to hack your linux box? And they're > > > from the same block/class of IP's? Where are the IP's from? Did you piss > > > someone off? > > > > not that I'm aware of. Most are scans and probes, but there have been a few > > attempts at over-running a few of the services I've got running here and > > there. thankfully, all of them unsuccessful. > > I had ONE person try to muck with my machine - and I literally opened > the door for him to do so - but he didn't get very far - after he had > got in via ftp (duh - as anonymous) I blasted him with a binary file and > his modem went "north" (or south, whatever)... > (Old BBS trick of sending command.com at their modem, basically)
Wow! please elaborate. I am seriously interested in knowing the reasons behind that and why sending a file like that would be a problem to the remote modem. sounds very interesting. <evil grin> -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!"
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