Re: [Re: [[newbie] dumb firewall question]]

2000-04-10 Thread jfmurphy
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: > In that case providing you saw my earlier post, > you will know that I was a victim of script kiddies > just this morning. > > Firewall time, off to read the howto's. I have been following cable post as it's coming to my area soon. Security is a big issue with i

Re: [Re: [[newbie] dumb firewall question]]

2000-04-10 Thread Vic
In that case providing you saw my earlier post, you will know that I was a victim of script kiddies just this morning. Firewall time, off to read the howto's. On Fri, 16 May 2036, Jaguar mewed: > Script-kiddies=pin-head kids with more software than brains trying to CRACK > into someone elses co

Re: [[newbie] dumb firewall question]

2000-04-10 Thread Vic
What "script kiddies" mean? On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Stephen F. Bosch mewed: > Jaguar wrote: > > > > After having "script-kiddies" try to "DNS Malformed", Trojan Scanning, and > > many other attcks on my static IP, I captured the attempts with trace-route, > > and the BlackICE Defender log files, an

Re: [[newbie] dumb firewall question]

2000-04-10 Thread Vic
Many thanks!! On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, maxtorator mewed: > On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > Thanks, thats what I thought. > > I forgot where the firewall howto is, > > when I do find out or when you or someone > > tells me, I'm gonna go and snoop through it > > and see what I can do. > > Heres a

Re: [Re: [[newbie] dumb firewall question]]

2000-04-09 Thread Jaguar
Some of the script attacks were from the @Home ( or flavors of @Home (ie: @Roadrunner) meaning the 24.x.x.x IP set. But there were quite a few who were on other ISP's but I had a trace route of their IP#, heheh I could even trace a private network ( 192.168.x.x) node back to a specific city/town.

Re: [[newbie] dumb firewall question]

2000-04-09 Thread maxtorator
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Thanks, thats what I thought. > I forgot where the firewall howto is, > when I do find out or when you or someone > tells me, I'm gonna go and snoop through it > and see what I can do. Heres a link to FirewallHow-To http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/Firewall-HO

Re: [[newbie] dumb firewall question]

2000-04-09 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Jaguar wrote: > > After having "script-kiddies" try to "DNS Malformed", Trojan Scanning, and > many other attcks on my static IP, I captured the attempts with trace-route, > and the BlackICE Defender log files, and sent them to @Home Abuse. They > replied that they are __NOT__, I repeat _NOT_ re

Re: [[newbie] dumb firewall question]

2000-04-09 Thread Vic
Thanks, thats what I thought. I forgot where the firewall howto is, when I do find out or when you or someone tells me, I'm gonna go and snoop through it and see what I can do. On Thu, 15 May 2036, Jaguar mewed: > After having "script-kiddies" try to "DNS Malformed", Trojan Scanning, and > many

Re: [[newbie] dumb firewall question]

2000-04-09 Thread Jaguar
After having "script-kiddies" try to "DNS Malformed", Trojan Scanning, and many other attcks on my static IP, I captured the attempts with trace-route, and the BlackICE Defender log files, and sent them to @Home Abuse. They replied that they are __NOT__, I repeat _NOT_ responsible for firewalls,

[newbie] dumb firewall question

2000-04-09 Thread Vic
I have a cablemodem on a dynamic address, not static, should I set up a firewall? I'm connected all the time, and if my server is ever cracked, what should I look for? Like logins in my logfiles that I know I did not do like when I was asleep or away? -- My new linux web server with Apache ht