Usenet Scans: Was Dealing with port scanners / attackers

[Gary Flynn]

Eric wrote:
> 
> By the way, I see frequent few port scans from people looking for
> open news servers!  And that is on a system that doesn't run a
> news server at all.  While I don't see that as a security problem,
> I am puzzled since it never happened before the first week of
> October.

I've noticed the same thing quite regularly. Particularly to the machine 
I use to post to newsgroups. They don't get anything but a RST here 
though :)
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