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Re: Lots of scans


From: azimuth <lozah () io com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 01:18:56 CDT

Chris Laycock said:

I receieved a lot of scans from different IPs this evening in a small
 space
 of time after I connected to the internet (Dynamic IP).  Am I being
 paranoied or is there a distributed attack?

Howdy Chris,

Since the IP's dynamic, all of this could be fallout from the previous
user of the IP, who could have vacated it just before you were assigned
it.  The UDP 31337 packet could of been part of a scan, or an uninvited
session to the box using the IP before you :-[

Anyway, I think it's just paranoia on this one :-)

az


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