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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:47:36 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mit@mitayai.net>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, tjk@tksoft.com, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: strange messages
Message-ID:  <20010308094732.M45561@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBIEGPMLMKDBMMICFNOEJAELAA.mit@mitayai.net>; from mit@mitayai.net on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:38:46AM -0500
References:  <20010308094055.L45561@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> <NEBBIEGPMLMKDBMMICFNOEJAELAA.mit@mitayai.net>

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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:38:46AM -0500, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote:
> if someone was trying to exploit your machine, wouldn't you want to know
> where they were doing it from, especially wrt inside or outside the netwo=
rk?

This information could be spoofed, and even then it doesn't tell you
who's doing it.

I'd hope you have a good firewall anyways.  The only reason I've never
seen this message on my own system is because my firewall blocks it.

--=20
wca

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