yeah - the port scanning on Cox ip ranges is rather severe and apparently
Cox makes no effort to police the activity. When I see that happening, I try
to nslookup and complain to abuse@whateverdomain but often little is done.

Craig

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
> sinck@owmyeye.ugive.com
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 7:53 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Prot probes
>
>
>
>
> \_ I have just got everything up with @home this past weekend. I am so
> \_ glad. I check my firewall every night to see what is going on. In
> \_ my log file have started to see a pattern to some probes. I seem to
> \_ get a lot from Cox at home and Cox at work.
>
> This is a bit severe, but try:
>
> ipchains -A input -j REJECT -p tcp 24.0.0.0/8 -y -d <your-ip> 0:65535
>
> That'll definitely mask off those annoying cox@ probes.  As well as a
> whole host of other folks, but why are they trying to see your box
> anyway? :-)
>
> IIRC, some dig'ing found that cox went 24.1 - 24.14 a while back.
>
> David
>
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