Player being pinged?

**Roy M. Silvernail** · 2003-12-30, 05:22

Player being pinged?

On Tuesday 30 December 2003 00:04, Jason wrote:
> My apologies I was thinking of some other stuff he should block, namely
> WINS garbage in addition to ICMP non-initiated messages.

I just set my firewall to drop all unsolicited incoming packets except for
port 22 (ssh) and port 143 (IMAP, so my cell phone can check its account),
which get forwarded.

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com
> [mailto:discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of Enno Davids
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 9:51 PM
> To: Slim Devices Discussion
> Subject: [slim] Player being pinged?
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 09:44:17PM -0700, Jason wrote:
> |Someone is running port scanners on you. You need to tighten up your
> |router/firewall and for one thing block port 43 which is ICMP requests,
>
> aka,
>
> |pings and the like.
>
> Ummm, icmp is not in the normal port spaces of tcp or udp... Yes you should
> block it but there will be special syntax to do so. If you can, try just
> blocking incoming echo request packets, that way things like port
> unreachables
> from other places you try to talk to can still get to you.
>
>
> Enno.
>
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com
> |[mailto:discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Brogan
> |Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 8:48 PM
> |To: discuss (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com
> |Subject: [slim] Player being pinged?
> |
> |Last night and again tonight I noticed that my SLIMP3's display is
> |reporting that it's being pinged every minute or so. Some of the IPs
> |are the same, some are close to each other, all seem to be coming from
> |my ISP (but not my internal network).
> |
> |Should I be concerned? What can I do to trace the source(s) of these
> |pings?
> |
> |Thanks.
> |
> |-Dan
> |
> |

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