PMFBI, but I just had to comment. Since comcast recently acquired my cable
company and, they tell me, will soon be offering cable modem service in my
area, I went to their web site and looked at their service agreement. It
seems they do _not_ want you running any type of "server" on their plant, so
they have included restrictive clauses in the agreement. Thus, they have a
gotcha whereby they could, at the very least, claim the "right" to
sniff/probe your port. Whether or not the probe is otherwise legal or
defensible is wide-open to argument.
If I didn't want the high-speed service so desperately, I would be tempted
to wait for the telco to provide DSL. ... then again, maybe better not
hold my breath! <g>
Dave Putman
On Monday, January 31, 2000 12:42 PM, Robert Williams
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> What option are you guys using to start portsentry?
>
> It seems it can only scan UDP ot TCP but not both at the same time?
>
>
> Robert Glover wrote:
>
> > > Steve wrote:
> > > >
> > > I keep pretty close track of this. The majority of scans I've been
> > > getting are originating with 24.0.94.130 ops-scan.home.net. I don't
> > > think it's the "alleged badguys" increasing activity in an attempt to
> > > get in while the getting is good. My take is that the problems were
> > > never "user based" (at least not to the extent maintained by @Home).
> > >
> > > Frankly I'm getting kind of annoyed. Among other things, @Home keeps
> > > targeting port 80. Yeah, right, we're focusing on nntp.
> > >
> > > Marc
> >
> > Yeah, I noticed that too. Instead of looking for open proxy servers on
> > port
> > 8080, 3128, or scanning for known vulnerabilities, they're just checking
> > for
> > web servers. I guess that's so they can make more money, but it might
just
> > be that they don't know what they're doing (IMO). An @Home UDP might be
a
> > real possibility again, if they don't start looking for the real
problems.
> >
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