Re: Scanned for open relay ?

From: Lars M. Hansen (badnews_at_hansenonline.net)
Date: 07/31/03


Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:27:29 GMT

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:43:18 GMT, R Green - WoWsat.com spoketh

>Basically, if you're being scanned without your authorization (ie. you have
>not gone to a website to do a test scan of your own machine), then by all
>means put that IP RANGE (and not just that offending IP) into your
>restricted zone.
>
>R Green
>Technical Support
>--------------------
>WoWsat.com
>--------------------

For what purpose? The firewall is already blocking the probes.
Restricting it further doesn't do any good whatsoever...

Lars M. Hansen
http://www.hansenonline.net
(replace 'badnews' with 'news' in e-mail address)



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