>From the logs on my machine using the @home network, it looks like all
the scan is port 119 (news server?). They have never checked any other
ports. Unless they also do stealth scanning which I'm not checking for.
-Rob.
Michal Young said these things on 20000726.1013:
| Given that they are scanning for standard servers, at standard ports,
| does this mean that you could set up services for personal use at
| alternative ports? For example, many people run httpd (www) at 8080
| rather than the standard port 80 for some application they want to
| run as a normal user rather than root. I'm not an expert on port
| scanning, though ... do the port scanners just try normal
| "well-known" ports, or do they scan the port address space?
|
| --Michal
|
| >I still wonder what they call a "server", though, but I guess they would call
| >anything that runs the basic net service daemons (ftp, www, telnetd,
| >mail, news) a
| >"server". From the desktop market, that makes sense, but from the un*x world,
| >it's a little silly.
| >
| >--Mike
