Re: iptables log random access attempts to my server. why?

[Volker Schlecht <vschlecht@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de>]

> in only one night, there have been 355 such packets logged, 133
> distinct source IP addresses total, most of them going for port 80
> do you have any idea why this could be?

Code Red is still in the wild:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-23.html

At least that's how I explain away the massive amount of probes on
port 80 on my desktop-dialin-account machine which I get recently.

regards,
Volker 

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