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Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Doncaster)
Sun May 19 10:02:28 2002

Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 10:03:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
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> > rough assessment of their network security, which was important to me
> > as a customer for obvious reasons.
> 
> In that case, I would not consider the scan to have come from an
> 'unaffiliated' person. I'm sure if the bank's network operator noticed it,
> and contacted you, things would have been cleared up with no harm done. To

It sounds like you know something that I don't.  How do you find out the
contact information for someone given only an IP address?

-Ralph



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