[Foundation-l] Port scans?

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 01:42:04 UTC 2007


> My firewall (Outpost Pro) keeps reporting port scans from meta.wikimedia.org
> (details at the bottom of the email).

It seems very unlikely that anyone would do a port scan from the
wikimedia servers. I would guess it's someone spoofing the source IP
address, although I can't see much point in that beyond causing an
annoyance (which is more than enough reason for some people).



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