RE: can/should

["Crye, Michael" <michaelc () humongous com>]

Speaking of other sources for scans ... I have experience with running
online gaming servers which sets flags off from many a network defender ...
They write us really upset that they are getting high levels of packets to
certain ports and fire off some really mad email at use at least once a
month.  I wonder what their reaction is to our response that they are being
attacked by the evil Unreal Tournament Server that some user on their
network is playing.  So I do recommend determining the nature of activity
and not to always trust commerical products that give you nice looking
reports, but the admin doesn't research the issue fully if at all in some
cases.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dion Stempfley [SMTP:Dion () riptech com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 3:35 AM
> To:   'Barry Hudson '
> Cc:   'nmap-hackers () insecure org'
> Subject:      RE: can/should
>
>  
> Many sites send a relatively curteous mail to the site or isp that
> summarizes that logs and states that you detected a portscan and consider
> this bad behavior, and would like the site to check to ensure that they
> have
> not been compromised.  This assists sites that are being used as jumping
> off
> points to identify that they have been had.
>
> It's important not to be discourteous, because you may incure the wrath of
> some admins that will flame you to death.
>
> Dion Stempfley
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Hudson
> To: nmap-hackers () insecure org
> Sent: 5/23/00 9:35 AM
> Subject: can/should
>
> As a new firewall admin I have a question for the white hats.  I log
> port scans and do a whois to locate the ISP that owns the ip address.
> My questions is what else
> can/should be done.  I have no other reason to believe they got through
> or committed any crime.  What else are you guys doing?  I  hope this is
> not to far off topic.
>
>
>
> Barry S. Hudson 
> Network Systems Manager 
> Fredericksburg Savings Bank 
> www.fsbnk.com 
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