Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

2003-11-19 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:39:40PM -0600, Rthoreau wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:50:02PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote:   Looks like a ping (ICMP type 8).  Where do you get port scanning from? FWIW, I think that blocking pings via a firewall isn't recommended, but not sure why. Jon

ISP and DNS port scanning!

2003-11-18 Thread Rthoreau
Hello: fellow Debian users I was going over my router logs and noticed that I am getting port scanned from my ISP, this has been happening for a while but I haven't had the time to look into it untill now. I did a basic whois on the IP address and they show that it is my ISP, the destination

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

2003-11-18 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:43:15PM -0600, Rthoreau wrote: Hello: fellow Debian users I was going over my router logs and noticed that I am getting port scanned from my ISP, this has been happening for a while but I haven't had the time to look into it untill now. I did a basic whois on

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

2003-11-18 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:50:02 + Antony Gelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:43:15PM -0600, Rthoreau wrote: Hello: fellow Debian users I was going over my router logs and noticed that I am getting port scanned from my ISP, this has been happening for a while

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

2003-11-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:50:02PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: Looks like a ping (ICMP type 8). Where do you get port scanning from? FWIW, I think that blocking pings via a firewall isn't recommended, but not sure why. It does not provide any kind of security or protection what-so-ever,

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

2003-11-18 Thread Rthoreau
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:50:02PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote:   Looks like a ping (ICMP type 8).  Where do you get port scanning from? FWIW, I think that blocking pings via a firewall isn't recommended, but not sure why. Jon wrote: It does not provide any kind of security or protection