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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:25:08 -0500
From:      "Bob Hall" <rjhalljr@starpower.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: scanning the smbd port
Message-ID:  <20021216002508.GA4108@sten.alder.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021214092331.GA7429@sten.alder.net>
References:  <20021214092331.GA7429@sten.alder.net>

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On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 04:23:31AM -0500, Bob Hall wrote:
> I looked in the archives, but I didn't find anything on this. I've gotten 
> a number of messages like the following:
> 
> Dec 13 22:37:20 sten inetd[6015]: refused connection from 61-231-96-100.HINET-IP
> .hinet.net, service smbd (tcp)itten
> 
> They seem to come from all over. In addition to Taiwan, they come from 
> Pakistan, Japan, and my own local ISP. My interpretation is that they are 
> scanning smbd ports. Is this correct, and why Samba?

Never mind. When I googled instead of just searching the mail archives, 
I got lots of info on this.
 
> Also, I've got the following in /etc/hosts.allow:
> 
> ALL : localhost 127.0.0.1 : allow
> ALL : 192.162.0/24 : allow
> ALL : ALL : deny
> 
> I don't want to provide any services outside of the local network. I 
> want the hosts inside the local network to be able to request services 
> out on the Internet. Is there a better way of doing this?

And some more research turned up my errors in this. 

Bob Hall

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