Re: Commercial anti-honeypot tool

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> > Wouldn't it be easy for a honeypot to detect "Hon.eypot Hun.ter"
> > simply by looking for SOCKS clients that make connection requests
> > back to their own IP on port 25? For these connections, the
> > honeypot could provide full SOCKS functionality.

> You're making the assumption that the injecting IP address and the
destination
> IP address are in the same address range.  There's nothing that says that
the
> thing can't at least in theory come from 66.112.34.98 or someplace, and ask
> to connect to 12.34.98.64, which is running a packet forwarder back to the
66. address.

Well thats the way it works in the current version of H.H.
Once they smarten up and do what you say they will be much harder to detect.

- Tom