Re: Korea (was RE: ?)

[patrick () PINE NL (Patrick Oonk)]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 04:02:33PM -0500, Dug Song wrote:

> and just a suggestion, but you may want to raise your alert threshold -
> and if a forgeable TCP SYN portscan is enough to raise your hackles on a
> public mailing list, you'll be tearing your hair out when a single script
> kid goes at you with nmap -D...

Actually I don't bother at all, but after checking out
the offending hosts it was clear they were hijacked
and used as an attack base. As such they are a menace
to the net as a whole. I also found it said for they owners
but they don't seem to care.

        Patrick

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