North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: netscan.org update
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 06:39:37PM -0700, Patrick Greenwell wrote: > Can someone explain to me why it is ok to blindly scan other peoples > networks without their permission for smurf amplifiers and post the > results, while doing the same for SMTP servers has met with heavy > criticism? A large part of it is probably that very few administrators set of warning bells on a single ping, but a substantial fraction of mail administrators get floods of e-mail warnings from the mail testing programs, wasting their time and energy. When you scan properly locked down boxes in a way that fills an admins mailbox they get testy. -- Leo Bicknell - [email protected] Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - [email protected], www.tmbg.org
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