Subject: Re: Security Issues...
From: Darron Froese (darron@froese.org)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 21:21:19 MDT
On 8/13/01 8:55 PM, "Brian Watson" <bcwatso1@uiuc.edu> wrote:
> I've noticed several people attempting to access my website, and not
> by ordinary means. I've been examining my logs, and many, many
> people are port sniffing me. How can I stop port sniffers? A friend
> mentioned something about a robots.txt file, but I don't know if this
> applies to YDL or not. Any help would be appreciated.
Brian,
The only way you can stop people from 'port scanning' you is by unplugging
your computer from the internet.
A robots.txt file will not stop port scanners, but they *may* stop well
behaved web robots from indexing your websites - those are two very separate
things.
What are you actually seeing in your web logs? If you posted them, I'm
fairly sure we may be able to see what's going on.
-- Darron darron@froese.org
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