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Re: [cobalt-users] PortSentry works !
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] PortSentry works !
- From: johnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu Mar 15 12:21:55 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
>How many ports has to be tried to access before it can be called a
"scan"?
>If I access the website (port 80), the POP3 (port 110), the ftp (port 21)
>and then the telnet (port 23) have I done a "portscan" then?
Maybe not if you are allowed to access the telnet port - however the scan
I 'suffered' was over 1516 posts taking 42 seconds. I would suggest that
this means that someone was attempting to access the system, and if they
tried this number of ports they should be reported.
Cheers
John