----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ford" <david_at_LINUX.COM>
To: <PEN-TEST_at_SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: Implications for "Looking around?" [FBI confiscation of
allegely curious student]
[snip]
> The normal visitor doesn't connect to a variety of ports and do zone
> transfers. This activity is surely what brought him above the noise
> level. Any investigator worth his beans would take note.
[snip]
Maybe, maybe not - if you are using one of the many internet based domain
query tools, then at some point it may be doing a dig -axfr... Is it any
different using nslookup and doing an ls -d ? Or is the former a better
way of 'hiding' yourself ?
Neither method is malicious in itself.
#include <standard_intent_vs_action.h>
;-)
Regards,
JJ
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