Re: scanning tools

From: Paul Johnson (baloo_at_ursine.dyndns.org)
Date: 10/30/04

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:16:17 -0700

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    Fortunately, gnus has gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article.
    Unfortunately not everybody has that feature. Please see
    http://ursine.dyndns.org/wiki/index.php/Top_Posting

    "Gilbert, Joseph" <jgilbert@insuresuite.com> writes:

    > Paul Johnson [mailto:baloo@ursine.dyndns.org] wrote:
    >
    >> nmap can do that, just be sure to only use ping scanning to avoid port
    >> scanning everyone (time consuming and may infuriate anal retentive
    >> pinheads who have been mis-promoted to network administration status).
    >
    > Reminds me of some funny stories I have from when I worked in abuse at an
    > ISP.

    Alright! A war story! I used to work tech support myself...got sick
    of it, did security for a while, got a better paying job as the
    shipping clerk at $LOCAL_COMPUTER_STORE. A pretty good job, get to
    fill in for a tech every once in a while when we're low on techs
    instead of letting some pointy-haired luser on the other end of a
    couple thousand miles of copper be my eyes and hands...

    > One such pinhead called up and demanded to know why we were scanning
    > port 53 on his network. Turns out a domain was registered that
    > pointed to non-existent name servers on his network and they were
    > using the domain to send mail.

    I always found it annoying when people would call me up asking about
    how to interpret their (non-syslog) wannabee-logfile output. "How
    should I know? We didn't give or sell it to you, so we don't support
    it. RTFM!"
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