[64772] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Portscans/PROXY scans
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sat Nov 1 17:37:50 2003
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 17:36:53 -0500
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0311011709150.13650-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan writes on 11/1/2003 5:23 PM:
> Its your network (or maybe your employer's network) to do whatever you
> choose. You may want to consider blocking smaller ranges than the
> entire /8.
Or go the opposite extreme and nullroute 0/0.
Portscans on the internet are a fact of life - unpleasant, yes, but you
can safely ignore them, and instead, concentrate on keeping your systems
secured.
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