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Re: Exodus / Clue problems

  • From: James McKenzie
  • Date: Sun Nov 15 20:07:26 1998

 Since this is an attack on name servers, I found the following
http://www.cert.org/summaries/CS-98.04.html it may or may not be relvent.
But it mentions IMAP, named and that attacks come from name servers that
have been comprimised.

  James

At 06:25 PM 11/15/98 -0600, William S. Duncanson wrote:
>Seeing it here, too.
>
>At 18:52 11/15/98 -0500, Daniel Senie wrote:
>>[email protected] wrote:
>>> 
>>> Let me guess - the IP is 209.67.50.254, and they're trying to login to
>>> nameservers as "root", sometimes a dozen times per second?
>>
>>I'm seeing that IP address trying to telnet into my name servers (don't
>>know if it's as root, since my filters are blocking them). I also see
>>them trying to access IMAP on my servers.
>>
>>Dan
>>
>>-- 
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>>Daniel Senie                                        [email protected]
>>Amaranth Networks Inc.            http://www.amaranthnetworks.com
>
>
>William S. Duncanson                      [email protected]
>The driving force behind the NC is the belief that the companies who
brought us
>things like Unix, relational databases, and Windows can make an appliance
that
>is inexpensive and easy to use if they choose to do that.  -- Scott Adams 
>
>

 James McKenzie
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