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On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Rich Sena wrote: > On Feb 1, 2001 Wayne Bouchard reported: > > > 53, 111, and 137 are the most common scans I trap at my > > firewall. Interesting bit with the scans to port 53 lately is that > > they're hitting the port 2 and 3 times, not just the usual once to > > identify and then move on. > > I betcha a guiness and a smile at N21 that those are Global Load Balancers > probing for distance metrics to your DNS servers on 53 and not malicious > scans... I can see it now. Someone at Akamai cackling as they instruct all boxes to nmap every NS entry in the .com zone... :) J
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