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Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!



On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:43:15PM -0600, Rthoreau wrote:
> Hello:  fellow Debian users
> 
> I was going over my router logs and noticed that I am getting port scanned 
> from my ISP, this has been happening for a while but I haven't had the time 
> to look into it untill now.  I did a basic whois on the IP address and they 
> show that it is my ISP, the destination is a DNS server that belongs to my 
> ISP.
> 

Looks like a ping (ICMP type 8).  Where do you get port scanning from?
FWIW, I think that blocking pings via a firewall isn't recommended, but
not sure why.

A
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