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by osolo 2221 days ago
My kids complained today that Google Classroom isn't working. After a quick investigation, I noticed that Snort on my firewall blocked the relevant Google server due to incoming TCP port scans. Sigh.
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Be careful with automated rules - unless it's a full TCP handshake, you can't conclusively identify the source of a port scan as the IP may be spoofed. If someone port scanned you and spoofed eg the IPs of your DNS servers, you've self-DoSed yourself.
Yikes! Maybe that's the next thing I will take a look at...
Can you share the server IP / hostname?