port scanning increase

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Mon Jun 13 03:35:03 UTC 2005


On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:05:51PM -0700, Shaun Savage wrote:
> When I started my tor server the amount of port scans with from 1 every 
> 5 sec to 2 /sec.  But the scans are not the standard probed ports, but 
> ports that don't have any standard services.  
> 25112,6883,9182,20341,....  and  traceroute packets. Is this standard?  
> If so thats spooky.

I've just added a FAQ entry with two answers:
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#Portscans

Let us know if you know of more. :)

Thanks,
--Roger



More information about the tor-talk mailing list