RE: A rather newbie question

["Schmidt, Michael R." <Michael.Schmidt () T-Mobile com>]

Thanks, as for telling them I was checking out some systems that were port scanning me, I did that!  And there are 
plenty of ISPs in the area that can handle my meager 2 static IPs.  They were actually complaining because it was some 
upstream provider (like a uunet I suppose) that I nmapped - but it was fun and educational and in no way could I regret 
it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] [mailto:aditya.deshmukh () online gateway technolabs ne t]
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 5:15 AM
To: Schmidt, Michael R.; full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] A rather newbie question

> If someone could take a quick look through my log file - it is
> very simple and shows a bazillion requests that are being bounced
> off my firewall.  I would really appreciate it.  My ISP didn't
> care and didn't respond when I let him know about all this
> traffic that was wasting MY bandwidth.  And then they were upset

if the isp does not care about people wasting your bandwidth pay your isp less by the cost of the amount of bandwidth 
consumed by the attacks estimate on the extravagent side accompined by a request to null route this ip address at a 
minimum. get your lawyer to talk to them if then do not respond!


> when I nmapped back to a few addresses and hit some upstream
> providers router - oh well, live and learn.  They told me they
> would terminate my contract if I kept that up.  Hey I was just
> trying to find out who the freaks were that are constantly
> attacking MY network.

that sure got their attention! just keep this up but after informing the isp that if they cannot protect your network 
then you would have to take active steps to protect your network which includes all the network scanning and namapping 
etc


-best of luck in dealing with the isp
aditya


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