I observed this type of probing when I lived on campus a year ago during grad school at the University of Texas at Austin. This link <http://www3.utsystem.edu/itmc/IT100699.htm> has meeting minutes detailing Bill Bard (Top UT Network guy) saying periodic scanning s a good thing (tm).
On the policy side, check out UT ResNet acceptable useage policies: http://resnet.utexas.edu/policy/policy.html. -limon On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Tohru Watanabe wrote: > Hello, > > I am a graduate student living on-campus at a University. I recently > noticed that Snort has been detecting portscans of my computer from the > Academic Computing folks. I've seen Syn scans, Xmas scans, UDP scans, and > Fin Scans. I told my friends living on-campus and was told that they've > been portscanned by the AC people several times as well. > We abide by the AUP so I'm wondering whether this is a general practice to > locate those running servers or who not abide by the AUP. I've seen > several threads from University Computing staff at other Universities and > was wondering what their policies regarding running portscans on student > computers were. Thanks in advance. > > Tohru Watanabe, CCNA > > >
