Re: Final Warning [ was: ECN is on! ]

[Joe Barr <warthawg@blackhat.net>]

What is ECN?  Is it the reason SNORT has started this lately:

<snip>

Active System Attack Alerts
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
May 22 10:11:18 pooh snort: spp_portscan: PORTSCAN DETECTED from 199.183.24.194 (STEALTH)
May 22 10:11:22 pooh snort: spp_portscan: portscan status from 199.183.24.194: 1 connections across 1 hosts: TCP(1), UDP(0) STEALTH

</snip>

See ya,
Joe Barr




On Tue, 22 May 2001 10:57:34 -0400




David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com> wrote:

> At 10:18 AM 5/22/01, Steve Modica wrote:
> 
> 
> >Perhaps it's none of my business, but it doesn't seem very sporting to
> >just turn something on that breaks stuff and say "you had fair
> >warning".  Why not shut it back off, issue a statement saying it works
> >now and will be re-enabled on June 10th or something, and everyone must
> >do thus and so or they will break on that day?
> >
> >Vague things like "it'll be turned on real soon now" or ASAP really mean
> >"never" since admins always have things with real deadlines at the top
> >of their list.
> 
> 
> I'd suggest something like:
> 
> Final Warning.  ECN is being turned on NOW.  If your firewall doesn't 
> support ECN, this will be the last message that gets through to you from us.
> 
> Such a message will have the interesting characteristic of being the last 
> message received.  This will make it obvious why no further messages are 
> arriving.
> 
> David
> 
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