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Aye, but that action was most likely taken because AT&T received numerous complaints regarding that Host/IP. In practice AT&T does not shut you down for port scanning - only if you are reported. Believe me, I have reported numerous AT&T hosts who continuously beat on my door - it usually takes a week or two of reporting before they act - and they never respond (unlike some other major ISP's). I'm still not sure if AT&T acts because of the TOS violation or because they are tired of seeing "Incident Reports for xx.xx.xx.xx" from my e-mail. ;) Just my .02 --Tim -----Original Message----- From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org] On Behalf Of Vince McHugh Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 23:07 To: dsr at tao.merseine.nu Cc: discuss at blu.org Subject: Re: ATT BroadBand Port Blocking <snip> From this post it seems like the discussion was someone from outside of the local network trying to use nmap to port scan. If this is the case there is no way an ISP could know that this is one friendly person trying to help out another (with no evil intention). The reason I brought up the issue was because of post from another mailing list where an individual had his box hacked and ATT shut him down (turned off his internet connection) because his box was detected port scanning others. He had a H*ll of a time convincing ATT to turn his service back on. I'm not looking to start a flame war over this. We're all "big boys" with free will. Do as you please. Regards, Vince McHugh __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss at blu.org http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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