Re: A rise

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () LEWIS ORG>]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, John wrote:

> In the last week I have had a sudden but, big rise in the number of RPC
> scans.
> Has anyone else had a grow in the number of RPC scans also in the last week?

Perhaps the sudden glut of hackable DNS servers via the recent BIND hole
has resulted in a sudden increase in boxes available to hackers for
scanning the rest of the internet.

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