Re: "Don't panic"?

From: Richard Silverman (res@des.jhy.us.ml.com)
Date: 01/29/02 

From: Richard Silverman <res@des.jhy.us.ml.com>
Date: 29 Jan 2002 17:17:54 -0500

>>>>> "MI" == Mike Iglesias <iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu> writes:

    MI> It's probably someone who's looking for vulnerable ssh servers so
    MI> they can hack the system. It appears that the IP address belongs
    MI> to Telstra Internet, so try abuse@telstra.net.

What "abuse" would you have him report? He has a box connected to the
Internet, with an SSH server accepting connections from anywhere. Someone
connected to it, exchanged a few bytes according the SSH protocol, then
disconnected. That's not abuse; it's what's supposed to happen. 

-- 
 Richard Silverman
 slade@shore.net