Re: OT: Help needed re port scanning [Long}

Andy Hewitt <hairy.biker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> > Oh, I see what you mean now. But why suddenly have the pings become more
> > frequent? Up to 64 and counting now...
>
> That's normal, most of them are harmless, and more often you'll find
> it's your own ISP checking ports to see if you're running web servers,
> ftp servers, mail servers and such like (these could be against your
> T&Cs).
>
> Many search engines also scan ports, and will then scan for a web
> server, and web pages.
>
> I run my own part time web server here and monitor my connection with a
> SNORT installation (this is a Unix package recompiled for Mac OSX, so I
> have no idea if it's available for Windows), this often shows alerts of
> 30 pings at a time, and most of these are traced back to my own ISP, or
> sometimes other genuine ISPs. Quite often you'll see a Google or Yahoo
> ping too, and this will often be followed by a 'robot' search for web
> pages.

I forgot to mention, if you are concerned about a port scan, bung the IP
in here \/ and see who it is first.

http://arul.telenet-systems.com/track.html

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Andy Hewitt ** FAF#1, (Ex-OSOS#5) - FJ1200 ABS
Windows free zone (Mac G5 Dual Processor)
<http://andyhewitt.webhop.net/>
(updated Jan 2006)
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