-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Alex Rubenstein Sent: October 26, 2001 9:03 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: EXAMPLE: ### xxx Canada detected a penetration attempt from 209.123.x.229. Incident# xxxx
Pursuant to my previous post, I just rec'd this. Not exactly the same, but very similar.
Kind of my point; SO WHAT THAT THIS PERSON WAS SCANNED? Is scanning actually an illegal activity? Was anything actually hacked, cracked, or 0wn3d?
It's an absurd waste of resources to be emailed by automagic systems every time someone sends a stray packet.
At least that one is relatively _polite_; we've received some from someone who was very rude and threatened to break into our systems to retaliate. Actually, I think it even hinted that the retaliation system was automated... not exactly the most comforting thing out there. Vivien -- Vivien M. vivienm@dyndns.org Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/