Hi,
My firewall (Outpost Pro) keeps reporting port scans from meta.wikimedia.org (details at the bottom of the email). For a few minutes after a port scan my firewall decides there's an attack underway and blocks me from accessing Wikipedia. I've not found any mention of anyone else having similar problems through google, so I thought I'd raise the issue here. Hope it isn't entirely inappropriate.
Yes I could add Wikipedia/Wikimedia to the trusted IP list, but it seems rather odd that I should have to, (I certainly haven't had this problem with other sites) and if conceivably possible I'd rather not. Why on earth should Wikimedia servers be aggressively port scanning users' computers? (I guess it's proxy detection or something, but it seems like using a hammer to crack a nut, and in any case I'm logged in which one would think would exempt me from such things.)
Tom (User:Cfp)
Last 10 "attacks". All the Wikimedia IP.
01:20:38 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (14603, 14602, 14600, 14599, 14597, 14595)
01:15:58 Rst attack 91.198.174.2 -> 91.198.174.2
01:09:36 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (14238, 14000, 13995, 13992, 13988, 14211)
12/12/2007 22:42:34 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (9711, 9710, 9708, 9707, 9705, 9694)
12/12/2007 22:31:28 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (9464, 9463, 9460, 9457, 9456, 9461)
12/12/2007 22:16:30 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (8975, 8974, 8973, 8972, 8968, 8963)
12/12/2007 22:16:30 Rst attack 91.198.174.2 -> 91.198.174.2
12/12/2007 17:55:41 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (1406, 1405, 1404, 1402, 1401, 1399)
12/12/2007 16:04:04 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (5321, 5320, 5319, 5318, 5312, 5311)
12/12/2007 14:40:06 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (2499, 2498, 2497, 2496, 2493, 2487)