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On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Stefan Suurmeijer wrote:
9 straight years of continual holes is probably suicidal (that brings to mind, is it still DeadRat's default ftp package? You do the math ;-))
No, of course it's the latest version from suse-update... However, thank you all, for the hints to better ftp-daemons! But there is still the same question: what could be the sense in doing a ftp-connection very 5 minutes and also ICMP echo requests (pings). There is no more process listening on port 21 (no more ftp in inetd.conf) but there are still the same attempts: from 211.56.234.227 to 129.20.79.55 IP Packet precedence: Routine (---) ID: 0x3F8E FLAGS: DF -- Time to live (secs): 106 Protocol (6): TCP Packet ID (from_IP.port-to_IP.port): 211.56.234.227.4283-129.20.79.55.21 E..,?.@.j.B..8....O7....J.5.....`. .XU...... from 129.20.79.55 to 211.56.234.227 IP Packet precedence: Routine (---) ID: 0xC53A FLAGS: -- -- Time to live (secs): 255 Protocol (6): TCP Packet ID (from_IP.port-to_IP.port): 129.20.79.55.21-211.56.234.227.4283 E..(.:....h-..O7.8..........J.5.P....... [...] ICMP message id: 211.56.234.227 > 129.20.79.55 ICMP type: Echo ICMP message id: 129.20.79.55 > 211.56.234.227 ICMP type: Echo reply (the output comes from sniffit -a -l 0 -b -t "@" -P IP,TCP,ICMP,UDP||grep -C 211.56.234.227) But perhaps there is just _no_ sense, only a mistake by the user of 211.56.234.227 ... Peter -- Peter Münster http://w3pm.stormloader.com/