On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:00:24PM +0000, Keith Davey mentioned:
> It looks like some sort of worm scanning our system but should I be
> worried? Its all only started up in the last couple of days but the
> amount going on each day is getting worse. Today it seems to be slightly
> slowing down the external internet access.
I really wouldn't worry about it. Think of it as the equivalent of guys
walking down the road, looking into the windows of houses, trying to work
out if there is anyone in.
The guys in HEAnet logged graphs of a load of traffic that was destined
for a block of IP addresses that weren't even commissioned, and this will
show how much traffic they could attract;
http://www.hea.net/mrtg/services/darknet.html
John
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