Re: Forwarded-> port scan attack from your system (fwd)

On Mon, Aug 28, 2000, Duane Wessels wrote:
>
> Sigh, Squid's persistent attempts to establish a connection makes
> some people think its a port scan attack.

Yup, I've come across this too over the last few days. Should I add
a "stupid_remotesite_admin yes" option which caches failed servers
so the persistent retry isn't done after the first round of failures,
a la negative DNS caching? :-)

Adrian

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