On Tuesday 29 June 2004 06:16 pm, Brad Klinghagen wrote:
[...]
> Is it right to assume that this traffic is a hacker using automated
> software trying to probe for weaknesses in my firewall or computer
> setup? Or is it something else completely, something much less sinister?
> Could this be some ad software, or something like it? If this isn't
> someone trying to get in, how can you tell in your log files. I've got a
> number of various entries of unwanted IP attempts to access my network;
> some I believe is just spurious traffic, but others look like concerted
> effort to get at my computers.

Likely just your ISP checking for their customers running unwanted 
web servers. ISP's regularly use the 10./8 block for their LAN mixed with
accessability to the customers (sometimes used for dhcp/dns servers as well).
-- 
~Lynn Avants
Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall Developer
http://leaf.sourceforge.net
http://guitarlynn.homelinux.org:81


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