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Re: DreamHost Contact?

  • From: Robert E. Seastrom
  • Date: Mon Dec 31 04:23:35 2007

"Robert E. Seastrom" <[email protected]> writes:

> Gregory Hicks <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:42:21 -0500
>>> From: Michael Greb <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> I've got a user sending a lot of UDP traffic to 208.113.189.13 port 22.
>>> This traffic is very likely undesirable and I'd be willing to pull the
>>> plug immediately if I can get confirmation from DreamHost.  Failing that
>>
>> Port 22?  Isn't that ssh?  Doesn't ssh have the capability to forward X or 
>> whatever via ssh?
>
> I'm with Gregory here.  Between scp and port forwarding, there are
> plenty of explanations for lots of traffic on port 22.  What exactly
> leads you to the conclusion that the traffic is "very likely
> undesirable"?

duh, UDP, not TCP.  My bad.  Yeah, this is a little bit weird.

                                        ---rob