Problems with .de abuse

Wed Mar 24 17:27:15 UTC 2004

On Mar 24, 2004, at 12:18 PM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:58:27 +0100, Erik Haagsman said:
>>
>>> It is...and persistently trying a host of SNMP communitie strings on 
>>> a
>>> neighbour's router interfaces doesn't make it any better :-)
>>
>> Trying once is one thing.  Being persistent about it when it didn't 
>> work the
>> first time deserves a smack with a clue-by-four. ;)
>
> sometimes this is OVW going on a discovery rampage, quite a few folks
> forget to set the scope before telling it to discover :(

Seems that most OV installations would have on SNMP string.

Alternatively, if you logs all these strings, look up the source IP, 
you now have a really good view into the routers for that AS. :)

-- 
TTFN,
patrick