Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

2003-11-19 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:39:40PM -0600, Rthoreau wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:50:02PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: >   > > >Looks like a ping (ICMP type 8).  Where do you get port scanning from? > > >FWIW, I think that blocking pings via a firewall isn't recommended, but > > >not sure wh

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

2003-11-18 Thread Rthoreau
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:50:02PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote:   > >Looks like a ping (ICMP type 8).  Where do you get port scanning from? > >FWIW, I think that blocking pings via a firewall isn't recommended, but > >not sure why. Jon wrote: > It does not provide any kind of security or protec

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

2003-11-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:50:02PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Looks like a ping (ICMP type 8). Where do you get port scanning from? > FWIW, I think that blocking pings via a firewall isn't recommended, but > not sure why. It does not provide any kind of security or protection what-so-ever,

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

2003-11-18 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:50:02 + Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:43:15PM -0600, Rthoreau wrote: > > Hello: fellow Debian users > > > > I was going over my router logs and noticed that I am getting port > > scanned from my ISP, this has been happening for

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

2003-11-18 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:43:15PM -0600, Rthoreau wrote: > Hello: fellow Debian users > > I was going over my router logs and noticed that I am getting port scanned > from my ISP, this has been happening for a while but I haven't had the time > to look into it untill now. I did a basic whois