Re: Connection attempts

From: Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org)
Date: 04/23/01 

Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:33:35 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Tim Kent <saboteur@saboteur.cx>

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:18:24AM +1000, Tim Kent wrote:

> Over the last few days I have noticed many people trying to connect
> to port 111 (portmapper). I don't run portmapper but i have log in
> vain enabled. Are these people going crazy with rpcinfo or what?

Script kiddies..just ignore it and get used to it.

Kris

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