[NTLUG:Discuss] @home, Carrollton TX hits on port 80

Fri Aug 10 20:43:08 CDT 2001

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 20:19:12 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
"J. Jentink" <jjentink at home.com>  said:
> I am getting about 20 hits an hour right now over my @home cable in
> Carrollton.
> From my web log, the following are the last few hitters: IP and
> reverse DNS lookup
>   24.0.40.151 cx1221131-b.elcjn1.sdca.home.com
>   24.0.164.239 cx586708-a.fed1.sdca.home.com
>   24.0.218.136 cx59931-a.dnpt1.occa.home.com
>   24.0.162.42 cx487547-a.fed1.sdca.home.com
>   24.0.154.161 cx112244-c.cv1.sdca.home.com
>   24.0.162.42 cx487547-a.fed1.sdca.home.com
>   24.0.212.47 cx47296-a.alsv1.occa.home.com
>   24.0.147.21 cx512128-c.dt1.sdca.home.com
>   24.0.235.235 c1517939-b.frndl1.wa.home.com
>   24.0.49.245 c75556-f.potlnd1.or.home.com
> 
> When I did the reverse DNS on my own IP, it maps to the form..
>     c*******-a.croltn1.tx.home.com
> Looks like I an getting hammered by the @home folks on the west
> coast... California, Washington and Oregon.
> 
> My RD light on the cable modem also blinks constantly. I just
> disconnect it when I am not using the internet. What fun.

I count 645 hits in the last 16 hours on an ADSL in Ottawa, Canada.

It's more than a little frightening; I would _NOT_ want to be in a
position of not having a firewall in the way, even on Linux, and
I would be _appalled_ at the thought of exposing a Windows system
to this...
--
(concatenate 'string "aa454" "@freenet.carleton.ca")
http://vip.hyperusa.com/~cbbrowne/oses.html
Security-wise, NT is a server with a "Kick me" sign taped to it.
-- Peter Gutmann in the Scary Devil Monastery