On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 06:54 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > I spoke with a Comcast technician yesterday. He said there was nothing > Comcast could do and that the problem was that the 'bomber' was able > to get my ip address by scanning my system. That seems inconsistent to > me. If you're chatting with your ISP, I'd ask them if it's just you being flooded, or a range of their IP addresses. Then you'll know if you're a direct target. If they can't work that out, they're hopeless. As far as security goes, turn off the services you don't need. And configure the ones that you do need, to not listen to the outside world unnecessarily (secure the services properly, don't rely on a firewall to stand in the way). Then, add a firewall to your mix. It's an extra layer, not the only thing you should use in your defence. Attempts to crack into your system over SSH, for instance, will be water off a duck's back if you don't have an SSH server running, or it never listens to the world interface. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
