I use a nat router at home, and even recommend them for anyone who has even a single computer at home. This screws most port scans... I am on Cox also. You can get one for around 80 bucks now.
Shannon On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 01:48, Alex wrote: > I know ISPs have the right (by their TOS agreement) to monitor and probe > people.. I have just started messing with iptables. I'm a Cox.net cable > modem user and out of paranoia, I am blocking all IP addresses owned by > Cox.net > > I figured out how to get syslog to write the data from iptables to a file > and I'm notcing that I'm currently being portscanned by both the "dns" > server and the "proxy" server. Both of these are scanning the same > ports at the same time. Seeing a lot of stuff from kazaa users was > one thing, but what are the cox people up to? Do they scan everyone or > just the suspicious users? What I am seeing is not a scan of specific > ports (like their "authorized-scans--xxxx" address used to do on the > @home network, but an all out portscan.. They are scanning around the > 2800-2900 range (I have only witnessed this range so far, but it is still > continuing), one port at a time... (very slowly) > > I installed Apache the other day. I'm not interested in running a > webserver, but I like to test and debug scripts locally and then upload > them. Lord forbid they detected Apache before I could edit the conf > files.... > > -Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Shannon Roddy __________________________________________________________________ Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 Web Page http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy Calendar/Schedule See Home Page Wireless Email (255 Chars) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
