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Re: @home: Is *anyone* really home there???


From: woods () MOST WEIRD COM (Greg A. Woods)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 01:10:24 -0500


[ On Monday, February 28, 2000 at 15:37:02 (-0500), David Kennedy CISSP wrote: ]
Subject: Re: @home: Is *anyone* really home there???

What does an ISP *want* to have reported?  I agree that complaints
that "so-and-so just banged on my Quake port all afternoon" should be
unwelcome.  However some activities tend to be more troublesome and I
wonder what the threshold of pain has to be for an ISP? In general,
not a specific policy:

I don't want to see any reports that simply mention an errant packet or
two, regardless of what the packet destination port was.

I do want to see reports of systematic and repeated attacks where a
variety of types of attacks are in use, provided of course there's
adequate documentation to demonstrate the persistence and variance of
such annoyances.

I obviously want to hear about successful penetrations too.

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