[47823] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clayton Fiske)
Wed May 15 20:40:41 2002
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 17:38:53 -0700
From: Clayton Fiske <clay@bloomcounty.org>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <20020516002239.GA1991@elvander.otherlands.net>; from briareos@otherlands.net on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:22:39PM -0700
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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:22:39PM -0700, PJ wrote:
> Are you now operating under the premise that scans != anything but the
> prelude to an attack? Sorry if I missed it earlier in the thread, but
> I would hate to think any legitimate scanning of a network or host
> would result in a false positive. Even more, I would hate to see the
> advocation of a hostile reaction to what, so far, is not considered a
> crime.
So you can think of a perfectly legitimate reason to scan someone else's
netblocks on specific TCP ports?
-c
