> I absolutely agree with Peter. Of course you might argue that there aren't > any legit reasons to scan a host that isn't yours, but you don't want to > put people into jail only because of their curiosity, don't you?
It's not about putting people into jail, and I'm not talking about portscans being illegal. I'm talking about the fact that curiosity is not an excuse. Portscanning is typical scriptkiddie behaviour, and I'm simply fed up with the sensless brabbing over "if you don't want to accept packets, don't connect to the internet", "a single portscanning won't do any harm", "I'm just looking if there are windows and doors" and the like. I record about a dozen portscans a day on my network here; and please tell me what good faith should somebody have to scan this network on ports 21, 137, 139 or the like? Why should anybody be interested in what I have on port 31337? No, I don't report all those portscans - in fact, I hardly ever do. But still, I have to take a glance at the report to watch for "interesting" patterns. > By the way, there is a super-fast port scanner called 'scanrand' in the > must-have package Paketto Keiretsu, just in case you haven't got it yet. > It doesn't wait for ACKs to arrive, but just sends as much SYNs until > your connection is saturated (you might want to limit bandwith, tough). > Quite cool. Wow. I'm impressed. You have a kool skript!!!1 And it even is soooper fassst!! There is absolutely no reason that s'kiddies and filthy spammers searching for abusable proxies, ftpz, windowze and the like should be excused. And foremost: a provider not acting upon this class of complaints is highly unresponsible. Chances are good that such a provider also will not act upon complaints in connection with spamming and other forms of net abuse. Regards, Matthias ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
