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William W. Austin wrote:
>The spooky part is that the network address of the machine trying to break in is
>on my local network, on this side of the firewall. It is a windoze box I keep
>around for my son to play games on, etc.
Probably some punk trying to connect to a backdoor that he installed
on the cracked machine.
You can, and should, drop any packets hitting your external interface
which claim to have internal addresses. Unless it becomes thick
enough to be a DoS, it's probably not worth the brain drain to worry
about it further.
- --
David Talkington
http://www.spotnet.org
PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc
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