Re: Scans for telnetd on DNS servers.

I wonder...

Could this be a SSH scan by some stupid script kiddie that mistook the
telnet port# for that of SSH?

-Alex

> I observed a sudden increase of 23/tcp probes on Feb 28 at 16:00 GMT
> (from more or less zero to approx. 1500 probes per hour). It lasted for
> 10 hours, then it stopped almost quickly as it started. It was neither a
> focused probing of a certain kind of devices, nor any systematic sweep --
> various IP addresses (including broadcast and other reserved addresses) in
> our network were hit in a seemingly random manner.
>
> --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms
> ]
> "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for
> assimilation."
>
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