Re: [Hampshire] Router Port Scan

2014-02-11 Thread Clive Woodfine
Many thanks all for your replies. It is as I thought. The main reason I asked this question is that the frequency of these emails has increased greatly over the last 2 or 3 weeks. Using the command whois indicates that they mostly come from China or the Far East. To be expected I suppose. Regards

Re: [Hampshire] Router Port Scan

2014-02-10 Thread James Bensley
Hi Clive, You can ignore these from a threat perspective. People from all over the world are scanning the entire Internet all the time. That is just a part of daily life on the Internet. Cheers, James. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Router Port Scan

2014-02-10 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
thank dog for IPv6 increasing the address space enough that it's neigh-on impossible to work out which addresses are likely to contain anything at all, let alone anything interesting. although it also will mean that sysadmins will have fun using addresses containing things like :cafe and :b00b

Re: [Hampshire] Router Port Scan

2014-02-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:37:58 + Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Daniel, although it also will mean that sysadmins will have fun using addresses containing things like :cafe and :b00b and :1337 (I would And face:booc (sic). -- Regards _ / ) The

[Hampshire] Router Port Scan

2014-02-09 Thread Clive Woodfine
Over the last couple of weeks or so my router keeps sending me emails similar to the below:- TCP Packet - Source:122.226.102.31 Destination:(my internet connection) - [PORT SCAN] The source is different each time but sometimes with the same 3 starting starting blocks. Should I be doing

Re: [Hampshire] Router Port Scan

2014-02-09 Thread Tim B
/2014 11:17 (GMT+00:00) To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: [Hampshire] Router Port Scan Over the last couple of weeks or so my router keeps sending me emails similar to the below:- TCP Packet - Source:122.226.102.31 Destination:(my internet connection