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Re: lots of interest in port 109 (POP2)

From: peak () ARGO TROJA MFF CUNI CZ (Pavel Kankovsky)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:12:06 +0100


On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Russell Fulton wrote:

Does anyone know why port 109 is suddenly so popular?


<speculation>

I doubt anyone is using pop2 nowadays but there are many machines where
pop2 daemon was installed by default (damn you, vendors!). I suspect many
of these daemons have more holes than emental cheese because no one uses
them, ergo no one bothers to maintain them.

</speculation>

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

Current thread:

lots of interest in port 109 (POP2) Russell Fulton (Mar 05)
- Re: lots of interest in port 109 (POP2) harikiri (Mar 07)
  - Re: lots of interest in port 109 (POP2) Jon Lewis (Mar 08)
- Re: lots of interest in port 109 (POP2) Pavel Kankovsky (Mar 08)
  - Re: lots of interest in port 109 (POP2) Juan M. Courcoul (Mar 08)
    - Re: lots of interest in port 109 (POP2) drkn (Mar 14)
    - Syn and Fin in different packets together Stuart Staniford-Chen (Mar 21)
    - Re: Syn and Fin in different packets together Simple Nomad (Mar 22)
    - Re: Syn and Fin in different packets together Granquist, Lamont (Mar 24)
    - Dramatic increase in UDP Port 137 (NetBIOS Name Service) probe activity Jeffrey D. Carter (Mar 25)
    - Re: Dramatic increase in UDP Port 137 (NetBIOS Name Service) probeactivity Bryan Andersen (Mar 28)
    - Re: Dramatic increase in UDP Port 137 (NetBIOS Name Service) probeactivity Christoph Schneeberger (Mar 29)
    - Re: Dramatic increase in UDP Port 137 (NetBIOS Name Service)probeactivity Bill Pennington (Mar 29)
    - Re: 169.254.x.x (Dramatic increase in UDP Port 137 (NetBIOS Name Service) probe activity) Pavel Kankovsky (Mar 29)

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