Re: Lengthy probes of port 8500

From: Soeren Ziehe (robintonat_private)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 03:25:00 PDT

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    In article <3B95D970.C9982F62at_private> [05 Sep 01]
       Paul Gear  <paulat_private> wrote:
    
    > Has anyone seen probes like this in the last few days?  I've never
    > seen them before, then last night i got more than 300 attempts in a
    > little over 2 hours.
    
    > Sep  4 18:53:39 xxx kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=6
    > a.a.30.66:1761 x.x.16.93:8500 L=48 S=0x00 I=65349 F=0x4000 T=117
    > SYN (#67)
    
    I haven't seen probes for that port, but I can shed some light onto what  
    this may be, I guess.
    
    Port 8500 is the standard port for the "gatherd" component of the  
    "harvest" distributed search engine/network.
    
    Robinton
    
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