Hi. I am directly connected to the internet, very much so. I see thousands of 'illegitimate connection attempts'... every second of every day of every year, on every port and protocol imaginable. Even 'invalid' packets. And yes, to that tcp port too from all sorts of places.
Come on now, this is truly old news... dating at minimum back to Bellovin '93. Those who have no ethical qualms about running tarpits/honeypots/etc and inspecting their traffic *might* know if it's targeted. Otherwise it's just noise to ignore. Install locks, move on to better things. CK's inbox is certainly a fine example of one such pot, heh. And of course everyone knows the Chinese boogeymen are probing the hell out of US address space. Oh wait, so are the Brazilians and the Romanians and the... ;) Why just the other day I was feeling lonely and sent out about 16M 'illegitimate' pings to some random/8 just to see who said hello. Happy Tor'ing. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
