[Xpilot-hacks] Re: ping

[xpilot-hacks.20.iridos at spamgourmet.com]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Dick Balaska  - dik at buckosoft.com wrote:

> I'm surprised that they traced you back so fast.

Fixed IP, university has a fixed IP-range, name of the university in the
DNS - not really hard.
I am amazed they had the time, considering the amount of pings, attempts
to hack our IIS webserver (which is actually an apache server) etc. etc.
our webserver recieves.

> I use the ping all the time; no one threatened me! ;(

Guess I had the one overenthusiastic admin that came directly from his
training, then.


> > Any opinions on this?
>
> I think it's a good idea except that; what happens when Tromso or Ohio State
> receives the "fsck you for a trillion" letter?  XPilot meta goes away real
> quick for one thing.


Don't think so.

a) Ok, you caught me, I was "slightly" exaggerating there ;)
   (perhaps you knew this?! *g*)

b) meta-server is in the official "xpilot.org" domain.
   The port xpilot uses is registered for xpilot.
   The software that caused this is available - it can be shown that one
   of their users caused this.
   => Arguments like this would end even quicker than the one in my case
      did.

I was more concerned the Uni/my Prof wouldn't like me to run some servers,
or even play at all, less about that ridiculous complaint itself :-/ .

Karsten aka Throat