Connection attempts to 13223

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hi,
anyone know what attempted connects to port 13223 are aimed at achieving.
really found this one interesting but do not have any info on why that
specific port what the connector hoping to achieve on this specific port??
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                                                        dreamwvr () dreamwvr com
At 02:52 PM 3/23/99 -0800, David Gillett wrote:
> On 22 Mar 99, at 9:59, Neil Ratzlaff wrote:
>
> > I keep seeing people doing combination finger/IMAP scans on our
> > primary and secondary nameservers.  The number of sources is
> > increasing.  (And the firewall keeps blocking them.) The ratio is
> > usually about two fingers followed by an IMAP, they wil try several
> > dozen times, and then they quit. Does anyone recognize this as a
> > meaningful pattern?  If so, can someone tell me what they think they
> > are doing?  Assuming there is thought involved, of course. 
>
>  A common pattern we see includes two tries each at IMAP, finger, POP, 
> telnet, mountd, and sometimes a couple of others.  Every time we've 
> tracked it back, we've found someone's Linux box that has been cracked.
>
>
> David G
Reuters, London, February 29, 1998: 
Scientists have announced discovering a meteorite which will strike the 
earth in March, 2028.  Millions of UNIX coders expressed relief for being 
spared the UNIX epoch "crisis" of 2038.
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