Re: [Freenet-chat] Attack on Freenet -- Already!

[tartlhuQ <tartlhuQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 04:07:24AM -0500, dmolnar wrote:

> For what it's worth, this kind of attack seems easy to distribute. 
> It does not seem difficult to pay others to do some of the portscanning
> for Them. That might stop as soon as a few people are hit for portscanning
> and their accounts pulled, but it could make it more difficult to keep a
> ban-list. 

You know, there are Perl scripts out there that detect portscans on Unix
systems.  It shouldn't be that hard to modify one to make it add the
scanner's IP to /etc/hosts.deny.  BTW, will Freenet run through inetd?

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