I know this seems like a given, but have you checked your bash_history (if
it still exists), /var/log/messages, etc? Do you use a kernel with modules
enabled? Do you have a firewall between the server and the outside world
that would yeild any insight as to what that suspected box is doing?


On Fri, January 20, 2006 06:24, darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the Jean Blignaut:
>> Hi All
>
>> I was contacted an hour or so aggo by some one claiming that they are
>> being port scanned by an ip used on one of our production gentoo
>> servers.
>
> This could possibly be someone using your machine as a zombie host for an
> idlescan:
> http://www.insecure.org/nmap/idlescan.html
>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Jean Blignaut
>
> -d
> --
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> "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more
> expected..."
> - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
>


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