Re: Who tried to connect to my i? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Who tried to connect to my i?
From: Nathan Andelin via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 09:20:05 -0600
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If you have a public address, or a private address and your

router/firewall

forwards a public address's traffic to your i, you will have your door
knocked on all day by scripted probes.

And if you run the IBM i HTTP Server, search engine bots from all around
the globe will be querying it intermittently, 24 X 7.

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