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Re: Is this normal?

Subject: Re: Is this normal?
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:35:19 +0100
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 12:34 -0300, Joe Polk wrote:
It's not necessarily unusual. Someone is scanning for open ports and such and
is attempting to come in. 
<snip>

They most certainly are not, in this case.
You can't scan for open ports if the packets contain a fake return
address like this. In order for the scanning machine to know that a port
is open it requires something to be sent back (ie.. SA). as has been
mentioned before this is most likely a syn flood type attack.

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