Yeah, but who sets up a news server at home? I mean, why not check ports
22,23,80,8080 and all the "fun ones"?
--Mike
Rob Hudson wrote:
> >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
