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21:15.20GateSigh. I'm being portscanned from Russia. At least it isn't korea again.
21:18.01bonez2046Gate: here's a dumb question.. how do you detect the portscanning at you?
21:18.10bonez2046I'd like to figure out if I am being scanned
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21:54.05Gatebonez2046: this time it was pure chance. I looked in my router logs because I am having some wierd issues and noticed that someone very sneaky was randomly checking ports
21:54.47Gatethey are coming from different IPs, to ports in random order but they are spaced perfectly evenly over time
21:56.05bonez2046systematically, eh?
21:56.55Gateyes, if it werent for the fact they were evenly spaced, there would be no way of associating these into a cogent attack.
21:57.49Gateunless of course these IPs are already on blacklists, but my guess is its just a botnet, and the IP I traced happened to be in Russia.
21:59.48Gatebonez2046: for more traditional portscanners there is firewall software that will pay attention to the connections and detect port scands, DOS attacks and the like.
22:01.49bonez2046thanks
22:02.24Gatebonez2046: are you running a server or just protecting a desktop?
22:02.40bonez2046it's just my linux box.. and home network
22:02.55bonez2046i have lots to do yet.. lots of networking to reconfigure..
22:03.46GateYeah, I know the feeling. Networking is fun for me for the first 10 minutes, then its just tedious.
22:08.15bonez2046Gate:  got any suggestions for a non-network-admin type like me? for network setup? I have a simple ethernet with a mac laptop, xp pro laptop (both wirelessly connected) plus a few other linux or xp pro boxes..
22:09.00bonez2046I just want to get them all able to talk to each other.. to notify with messaging, to allow centralized login, so I can control the xp pro boxes that my boys use..
22:11.13GateI haven't ever done this personally, but I worked in a lab maintaining OSX, Linux and XP desktops that were connected to a Samba/NFS linux server setup
22:11.41GateSo I would consider one of the linux boxes for authentication and network storage
22:12.02bonez2046ah, authentication is what I need.. and yeah, Ihave one box I can use for network storage..
22:12.46GateWe had the additional need of transferring profiles, so if I logged into one system and saved a file to my desktop it would appear on the next system I logged into as well
22:13.19GateI don't know the details but they were debian systems running Samba, and that is where the knowledge ends
22:13.26bonez2046that would be cool too
22:13.33bonez2046samba, ok. thanks
22:15.36Gatebonez2046: if the boys are fairly young you might look into edubuntu, last I checked it was set up for a client/server arch by default
22:33.38bonez2046client/server, meaning it would authenticate to some server, allowing me to shutdown, or limit privileges..? one thing I want to be able to do is set time limits. for particular users, say have it shut off the net connect for a user after a set time period
22:34.04bonez2046hour's up, no more net access until the child does something or obtains permission and renabling of their access
22:36.31Gatehm, I wouldn't know how to achieve that. But edubuntu is where I would start. It was designed for school type situations
22:37.10bonez2046ok.. my boys are gamers though, and I need to figure out how to sell the conversion from xp pro to edbuntu
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22:50.06bonez2046what's a pigeoncluster?
22:50.12bonez2046cluster of pigeons?
22:52.45PigeonClusterbonez2046, google it
22:52.49PigeonClusterfirst result
22:53.47bonez2046PigeonCluster: ah, that kind
22:53.48bonez2046ok
22:53.58Gatebonez2046: there are windows clients for such things, I am not in the least familiar with them thought
22:54.15Gates/t$//
22:54.51bonez2046windows clients for ....allowing me to have my boys authenticate?
23:01.11Gateyes
23:01.17Gateand the time limits and such
23:01.41Gatehell, you can actually do it in your router, my netgear can cut off network after a time alotment
23:02.37bonez2046my wife pushes me to install net nanny or some such guard software. I tried that a couple years ago and one xp box required a reformat of the hard disk when the trial version of the software failed and the company wouldn't help me get it off my system..
23:02.56bonez2046in my router, eh? I have a linksys wrt54g.
23:03.11bonez2046what I should do is hack it and reprogram it with openwrt
23:03.47Gatewell, it won't do the auth peice
23:04.06GateSounds like you need the network box acting as a proxy using something like dansguardian
23:04.27bonez2046maybe I should reexamine dansguardian
23:06.10GateI never could get it configured quite right
23:08.23bonez2046that's what I encountered too
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