Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:18:46PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Presumably you meant into testing because it's not in stable. You can't install the testing version in stable easily, either, because of dependency problems. How about such compiling portsentry from scratch? Novel idea, eh? :-)

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:01:35AM -0400, Eugene Tyurin wrote: How about such compiling portsentry from scratch? Novel idea, eh? :-) I do it m'self, but I *prefer* to use the package system when I can. It's just a constant frustration for me that to use the (most excellent) apt/dpkg system,

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:15:12AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Which is kind of my point. If I were made dictator of the Debian project (not bloody likely) I would declare all distributions to age out at six months: at that point, unstable becomes testing, testing becomes frozen, frozen becomes

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:15:12AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: It's just a constant frustration for me that to use the (most excellent) apt/dpkg system, I have to stay two years out of date. Why? Pull the debianised source from testing/unstable and build a deb from it against your system. Just be

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:20:14AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: If you don't want to be running year-old software (with the latest security fixes backported), switch over to testing instead. Bad news: testing *is* year-old software. By the time it's stable it'll be two eyars old. I plan to

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: I've been getting scanned... Date: Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:18:46PM -0400 In reply to:Carl Fink Quoting Carl Fink([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 06:08:59PM -0600, John Galt wrote: If this annoys you, take a trip into non-free and install portsentry

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:59:47AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:20:14AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: If you don't want to be running year-old software (with the latest security fixes backported), switch over to testing instead. Bad news: testing *is* year-old

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:39:46PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: Hi all, Someone's been port-scanning me, checking only some high ports. Here are my relevant log entries: May 26 13:39:30 j001 ippl: port 37397 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:43:03 j001 ippl: port 37404

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:59:47AM -0400, Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:20:14AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: If you don't want to be running year-old software (with the latest security fixes backported), switch over to testing instead. Bad news:

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Paul Wright
On Sun, 27 May 2001 14:07:46 PDT, Karsten wrote: Wrong. Testing is unstable + 10 days - bugs. Yes, but only for packages that begin with a through f ;) (at least for the moment) -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:07:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: Testing is unstable + 10 days - bugs. Oh. I misunderstood what it was for -- I always assumed it was almost frozen and once it was created, packages in it would not be updated except for necessary fixes. So it's basically

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:11:11PM -0400, Paul Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2001 14:07:46 PDT, Karsten wrote: Wrong. Testing is unstable + 10 days - bugs. Yes, but only for packages that begin with a through f ;) Pardon? -- Karsten M. Self

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:27:00PM -0400, Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:07:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: Testing is unstable + 10 days - bugs. Oh. I misunderstood what it was for -- I always assumed it was almost frozen and once it was created,

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Paul Wright
On Sun, 27 May 2001 18:17:53 PDT, Karsten wrote: on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:11:11PM -0400, Paul Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2001 14:07:46 PDT, Karsten wrote: Wrong. Testing is unstable + 10 days - bugs. Yes, but only for packages that begin with

I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-26 Thread Paul Wright
Hi all, Someone's been port-scanning me, checking only some high ports. Here are my relevant log entries: May 26 13:39:30 j001 ippl: port 37397 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:43:03 j001 ippl: port 37404 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:43:06 j001 ippl: port

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-26 Thread Leonard Leblanc
*SNIP* Does anyone how I can find out who/where/what-domain or host is using that ip? *SNIP* Running a 'whois 216.136.179.238' gave me the following results: Exodus Communications Inc.SantaClara-5 (NETBLK-EC20-2) 2831 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95112 US Netname: EC20-2 Netblock:

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-26 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Paul Wright wrote: Hi all, Someone's been port-scanning me, checking only some high ports. Here are my relevant log entries: May 26 13:39:30 j001 ippl: port 37397 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:43:03 j001 ippl: port 37404 connection attempt from

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 06:08:59PM -0600, John Galt wrote: If this annoys you, take a trip into non-free and install portsentry: Presumably you meant into testing because it's not in stable. You can't install the testing version in stable easily, either, because of dependency problems. --