[ale] unusual amount of 'net attacks from .fr ?

[Christopher Bergeron]

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That's not a bad idea.  I think I'll just drop all of France anyway.  I
really don't care about them if they're going to act like they're our
ally/friend and then they go and stab us in the back over some Iraqi oil
(France has major contracts worked out with the Iraqi's WRT oil - that's
why they don't want us moving in).

- -CB



Chris Ricker wrote:

|On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
|
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|>Hey guys, over the past months (6-8) I've noticed a surge in the number
|>of attempted "hack" attempts on my firewall originating from .fr
|>domains.  Particularly   wanadoo.fr.  With all of the recent war
|>discussions and the purported relationship between France and Iraqi oil;
|>I'm wondering if there's a relationship...  Has anyone else noticed
|>anything like this on their routers (I have multiple routers in
|>completely different locales that have produced the same result).
|
|
|wanadoo.fr is a big ISP in France (they're the ISP for the major French
|phone company, I think). You will never get anywhere complaining
|about any abuse from them, and they're notorious as both a spam source
|and the source of attempted breakins. Your only real recourse is packet
|filtering, though you will block most of France if you do....
|
|later,
|chris
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