On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:21:13AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I have a large supply of connection attempts to port 6346? Anybody have > > a clue about these? DOS attack (several per second)? Or some other > > 'sploit? I couldn't find any reference to this port via CERT. > > > > (seems whomever has given up for now...) > > TCP port 6346 is used by the Gnutella person-to-person file sharing > software. The most likely reasons why you're getting these connections > would be: > * Someone who once had your IP number ran Gnutella > * Someone mistyped an IP number in their Gnutella client
Ahh. Thanks for the clarification. Probably was number 1 as I'm on dial-up (the connection attempts came from several different IP addresses ...). > Whether you want to call it a DoS attack is up to you :) Well, certainly someone got denied service ;) -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
