On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 8:53 PM Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > .... reveals that of all the source addresses trying to poke at 48825, > there are 193 unique addresses. Either this indicates a heck of a lot > of sites having at my firewall, or that some few sites are all spoofing > their addresses. I can sort of understand people whaling away at ports > that may conceal gold, from their warped point of view, but I haven't a > clue why so many people would be beating on some apparently unassigned > and unused port. > distributed botnets.... its all noise. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz