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Re: SNMP probers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Apr 9 11:46:20 1997

Date: Wed, 9 Apr 97 08:23 PDT
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: Todd Graham Lewis <lists@reflections.eng.mindspring.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

>> What do folk do about persistent SNMP probers?
>> ...
> So long as they only probe with the "public" string, we ignore it.

We did that at first.  Soon we had a bunch of them polling hundreds of times
a day.  Clueless and sucky.

randy

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