[43796] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: EXAMPLE: ### xxx Canada detected a penetration attempt from 209.123.x.229. Incident# xxxx
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Fri Oct 26 09:56:35 2001
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:57:01 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Alex Rubenstein
> Sent: October 26, 2001 9:03 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: EXAMPLE: ### xxx Canada detected a penetration attempt from
> 209.123.x.229. Incident# xxxx
>=20
> Pursuant to my previous post, I just rec'd this. Not exactly the same, =
but
> very similar.
>=20
> Kind of my point; SO WHAT THAT THIS PERSON WAS SCANNED? Is scanning
> actually an illegal activity? Was anything actually hacked, cracked, =
or
> 0wn3d?
>=20
> It's an absurd waste of resources to be emailed by automagic systems =
every
> time someone sends a stray packet.
At least that one is relatively _polite_; we've received some from =
someone who was very rude and threatened to break into our systems to =
retaliate. Actually, I think it even hinted that the retaliation system =
was automated... not exactly the most comforting thing out there.
Vivien
--=20
Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
http://www.dyndns.org/
