Re: Possible DoS Attack?

From: Glenn Forbes Fleming Larratt (glrattat_private)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 10:53:48 PST

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    It could be a filesharing program - server on a low ephemeral port,
    clients use well-known ports as source ports to steer around blocking.
    
    	-g
    
    On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
    
    > I normally disregard scans, however this particular scan doesn't look like a
    > conventional port scan, and it happened around the same time the machine
    > went down.  It looks like their source port is changing, but the target port
    > on our machine is only changed periodically.  Could this have been a DoS
    > attack?
    -- 
    Glenn Forbes Fleming Larratt         The Lab Ratt (not briggs :-)
    glrattat_private                        http://www.io.com/~glratt
    There are imaginary bugs to chase in heaven.
    
    
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