Re: [cobalt-users] PortSentry works !

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Nico Meijer wrote:

> 
> So, perhaps an off list scan consortium?

I think from a strictly technical point of view such a list has
questionable value, most of the IP's i see than go scanning the usual
ports are dialup/cable modem users, a day after the fact , if not sooner ,
they have some other IP and some other poor slob has the one they used, so
theres' not really much point, i don't think i have seen the same IP show
up a second time...

On the other hand, in some cases where the machine was a server somewhere,
i have seen other folks on the list complain they got scanned by the same
IP, but it was too fast for anyone to have made any use of a shared list,
and generally if someone bothers to tell the server owner their webserver
is scanning the internet looking for victims the server gets fixed or
taken down in a day or so...

So, really, i see little actual value...

gsh