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Re: hack?



On Sat, 10 May 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:

> On Sat, 10 May 1997, Nir Soffer wrote:
> 
> > This might be a silly question - but were you using backweb at the time?
> nope... what's backweb? (sheepish look) some HTTP mirror util?

Backweb is some new invention (http://www.backweb.com) by an Israeli 
company (yay!), and if I understand it correctly, it allows you to create 
'Web Channels' so people could actually 'zap' and receive channels 
(passively) instead of looking for web pages (actively). But then again, 
I probably have it wrong. I wasn't even sure there's a Unix client. There 
might be though. I've heard that it uses UDP ports 194 and 193 or 
something like that by default, hence the question.
 
> > And what did /etc/services say about irc in your machine? 6667 or 194? :)
> 
> irc             6667/tcp                        # Internet Relay Chat

Well:
psychodad:~/tmp/gimp-0.99.9/app> telnet becker1.u.washington.edu 6667
Trying 140.142.12.67...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host
psychodad:~/tmp/gimp-0.99.9/app>

That might rule out an IRC connection. Ofcourse, I might be wrong... Hmm.

Ahhhhh :
psychodad:~/tmp/gimp-0.99.9/app> telnet becker1.u.washington.edu 6666
Trying 140.142.12.67...
Connected to becker1.u.washington.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.


[E/X] Connected to server becker1.u.washington.edu, port 6666.


Yup. It's an IRC server alright... Not just some weird coincidence...

You sure there wasn't an IRC client running? :)

You running accounting? IP accounting? Anything unusual on 'last' at the 
time of the incident?

N.


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