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what are these?

From: djk () TOBIT CO UK (Dirk Koopman)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:29:29 -0000


What are generating these and why do they (mostly) seem to come from
btinternet.com (sidebar - why don't BT ever bother to answer my questions)?

This is a small sample, I get varying numbers of these every day.

Mar 16 21:23:13 gate iplog[10085]: UDP: dgram to port 2140 from
host213-1-128-105.btinternet.com:60000 (2 data bytes)
Mar 16 22:34:38 gate iplog[10085]: UDP: dgram to port 2140 from
host5-99-47-84.btinternet.com:60000 (2 data bytes)
Mar 16 23:18:14 gate iplog[10085]: UDP: dgram to port 2140 from
host62-6-69-21.btinternet.com:60000 (2 data bytes)

--
Dirk-Jan Koopman, Tobit Computer Co Ltd
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find
at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.

Current thread:

what are these? Dirk Koopman (Mar 16)
- Re: what are these? Peter Bates (Mar 17)
- syslogd exploit? (fwd) Bill Cassady (Mar 20)
  - Re: syslogd exploit? (fwd) Erich Meier (Mar 22)
  - Re: syslogd exploit? (fwd) Pavel Kankovsky (Mar 22)
  - Re: syslogd exploit? (fwd) Jeffrey F. Lawhorn (Mar 22)
- Re: what are these? Imran Ghory (Mar 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: what are these? Fernando Cardoso (Mar 17)
- Re: what are these? Chris Adams (Mar 20)