| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 25 Jun 2001 at 22:19:25 |
| Subject: | Re: Internet Abuse and Port Hacks |
Craig_Daines said,
> I am experiencing illegal ports opening via Miami. It's been happening
> for some time now, even despite setting up a firewall in Miami strange
> ports are popping up every now and then. I have turned on logging, and
> am using syslog.library to collect evidence to pass to my ISP, as well
> as scanning ports that are opened using GoPortScan to obtain service
> information of ports opened.
Ports shouldn't open if you don't have a server runing on hem. It's more
likely that Miami is logging access attempts.
> What is the best thing to do in the event of abuse? I have passed the
> logs onto my ISP and the ISP's of the hosts concerned, so hopefully
> I've done the right thing 8)
Most ISPs have an email address of abuse@isp for this sort of thing.
> Q2)
> Some networks administrator information is not listed on some
> networks. How do you go about looking them up?
The RFCs state that mail for postmaster@domain must be accepted. If a
mail to abuse@ files, try postmaster@.
Cheers
Neil
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