Yup, and if you want to know why people scan for that, take a look at a simple IRC bouncer I whipped up in a few hours with a coworker at work. It bounces through misconfigured Squid or IIS boxes. It was the default on squid until recently. Warning: This code is horrid and likely contains a zillion buffer overruns :D http://raistlin.toledolink.com/~raistlin/httpbounce.tar.gz Jason --- Jason Slagle - CCNA - CCDA Network Administrator - Toledo Internet Access - Toledo Ohio - raistlin@tacorp.net - jslagle@toledolink.com - WHOIS JS10172 /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign . If dreams are like movies then memories X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . are films about ghosts.. / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail . - Adam Duritz - Counting Crows On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Ariel Biener wrote:
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
re: http://www.dshield.org/topports.php
port 8080 is of course not frequently used for webservers, but frequently used with proxy/cache servers (NetApp NetCache, Squid and alike).
Sorry for the off topic comment.
--Ariel
http://www.dshield.org/top10.php http://www.dshield.org/topports.php
Interesting stuff.
-Dan
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