Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer?

Sara Brigid Gaffney wrote:
>
> I had my packet sniffer running on this solitary Windows PC but I
> wasn't on the net. Suddenly I noticed I was getting hit multiple
> times a second. They were coming from a range of sources but
> targeted one port, 6346.

Possibly the previous person who had the IP Address that you were
assigned when you connected to your ISP was running Gnutella. It wasn't
a DoS but just the fallout of other computers thinking that you were
sharing files because they didn't know the previous user disconnected.
I'm presuming that you are assigned a dynamic ip address by your ISP.

Normally disconnecting and dialing back into your ISP will fix the
problem because it will assign you a new ip address.

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