Re: Basic info on ports/services

["Andrei D. Caraman" <adc@kili.mediasat.ro>]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:55:32PM +0200, Hamstrom wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, woofcow wrote:
> 
> > > Also, is there an online site where I can run a port scan at my own
> > machine
> > > (i.e. externally, since my firewalling rules are different for internal
> > > machines)?  I know <http://www.grc.com> does that, but I have a suspicion
> > > it's not checking all ports.
> > can't help you with the other stuff, but there's a good online port scanner
> > at http://www.cotse.com/refs.htm - near the bottom of the page.
> 
> Hi I went to this site www.cotse.com and found the portscanner at the
> bottom of
> the page. I pressed the port-scan button and saw in my syslog that a lot
> of ports where scanned. 
> After some minutes suddenly someone from ip 216.112.42.62 tried to start
> an ssh connection????? Is this for real????

I don't think it's for real.  You should have noticed connection
attempts to http, ftp, and so on...



regards,
adc