Connection attempts by operating system family, 2008-11-21

Representative sample of successful and failed connection attempts to vella.erinye.com / wootshell.org.
Judge for yourself.
Windows total connection attempts 790
port 80 (http) 370
port 25 (smtp) 184
port 22 (ssh) 6
port 53 (dns) 0
Linux total connection attempts 900
port 80 (http) 608
port 25 (smtp) 61
port 22 (ssh) 12
port 53 (dns) 91
BSD total connection attempts 10
port 80 (http) 9
port 25 (smtp) 1
port 22 (ssh) 0
port 53 (dns) 0
top 5 favourite ports
count port description
1681 80 http
309 25 smtp
139 119 nntp
91 53 domain
81 135 epmap
Legitimate ports are http, dns and smtp. There's no sshd listening at all on port 22. Previously, only about two percent of all windows connections went to one of the ports random strangers are supposed to limit themselves to. With my hosting more and more files on this machine, the numbers are being skewed somewhat in favor of legitimate users of any OS. If you're going through the archives, you'll also note almost no abuse at all from BSD users. Note that these numbers don't mean too much until a measurable part of the day has already passed.