From: boogabooga@crazyhat.net   
      
   In the last episode of , Med Ley   
    said:   
      
   >On 02/17/2012 10:27 PM, DevilsPGD wrote:   
   >> In the last episode of, Med Ley   
   >>   said:   
   >>   
   >>> When I do an iftop, i see le100.net is constantly trying to connect. Of   
   >>> course, it's only ~40B of data every time but it hasn't ceased for   
   >>> months and I suppose it's the same for everybody as my ISP.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't believe anybody needs services from le100.net. They're probably   
   >>> crackers looking for open ports. Worldwide! And that's certainly because   
   >>> many users have open ports.   
   >>>   
   >>> Some connections also come from Amazon. EC2 accounts, I suppose. Why   
   >>> don't ISPs stop them right at their door?   
   >>   
   >> How would your ISP know what traffic you do or do not want?   
   >   
   >Who do you think would want traffic from le100.net or the multiple EC2   
   >amazon accounts that keep knocking for months every 10 seconds on all   
   >computers on an ISP's network? It's too bad I can't forward it to you, I   
   >would :)   
      
   I don't know what sort of traffic that might be. For all I know, those   
   le100.net packets might be useful. Are you sure it's le100.net and not   
   1e100.net? If it's 1e100.net then those packets are likely in reply to   
   connections your browser initiated to Google. Depending on how dumb your   
   firewall is, it might be failing to notice that these packets are   
   actually associated with a half-closed TCP connection and instead report   
   an attack.   
      
   EC2 data could easily be the same, given how widely used EC2 is.   
      
   It could also be that you requested some sort of service from the IPs in   
   question and these packets are useful to you. You might know that that's   
   not the case, but do you really want your ISP guessing what packets   
   might or might not be useful and selectively routing traffic on that   
   basis?   
      
   >Please, stop drugs abuse.   
      
   huh?   
      
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