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Old 6th February 2012
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
Your experience is typical of anyone who ever opens a service on the Internet, intentionally, or unintentionally. There are script kiddies and other bad actors who set up computers to do nothing other than scan blocks of subnets by the millions -- knocking on every door -- and hoping for positive responses, and then subject those responding systems to further attack.
Oh, I see. They're scanning everyone in my entire subnet not just tracking me lol.

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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
You mention that you have opened "domain" services -- so you are perhaps running or plan to run a DNS server open to the Internet from this platform as well, though that doesn't make much sense to me if your Internet address is dynamic.
That was not what I was intending to do. I'll close that off then. Thanks.
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