On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 06:39:37PM -0700, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
Can someone explain to me why it is ok to blindly scan other peoples networks without their permission for smurf amplifiers and post the results, while doing the same for SMTP servers has met with heavy criticism?
A large part of it is probably that very few administrators set of warning bells on a single ping, but a substantial fraction of mail administrators get floods of e-mail warnings from the mail testing programs, wasting their time and energy. When you scan properly locked down boxes in a way that fills an admins mailbox they get testy. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org