John Clarke wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:42:56AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
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> > I am seeing repreated probes on my firewall from tgftp.nws.noaa.gov
> > (http) to ports 3507 & 3511 to my only box on the RHNS.
>
> And you're not running wmWeather or something similar? It grabs weather
> info from weather.noaa.gov which is a CNAME for tgftp.nws.noaa.gov.
<red face>
Brain on holiday problem. {:-)
</red face>
I could see the packets coming in, but not going out, because I was
looking on the internet side of the firewall, so of course, the filter
didn't pick them up.
Yep, it was the gnome weather thing. Even when explaining to the CFO and
explaining that NOAA was something to do with the US weather service, I
didn't think about the little gnome panel sun & temperature thing.
Never assume malicice when stupidity can explain it {:-).
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