On Wednesday 24 November 2004 21:15, Ed Wilts, RHCE wrote: >On Wednesday 24 November 2004 17:57, Arthur Stephens wrote: >>Doing a server new install yesterday. >>Came in this morning and there was this message on the console of >> my fedora3 box >> >>BOOBY TRAPS >>INIT: version 2.85 reloading >> >>>Any idea what this is? > >The string appears in the man page for hosts.allow. Were you > browsing man pages earlier? > >-- >Ed Wilts, RHCE >Mounds View, MN, USA >mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx >Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program Thank you Ed, I wasn't even aware there was a manpage for those two files, and under BOOBY TRAPS was a neat example of howto nail one facet of a breakin attempt. Not that it will get used all that often, only 2 attempts to get into my firewall box have been logged in 18 months. The first one wrecked a cheap Seimans router but didn't get past portsentry/tcpwrappers, and the other got nailed by portsentry writing an instant DROP rule to iptables, but didn't seem to hurt the LinkSys router I'd installed after the seimans died. Funny thing is, both attacks came from the main DNS I use at verizon.net. Go figure. I 'spose they're running some variant of winderz for a server. Suitable (un-acknowledged of course, wouldn't want to legitemize it with a response you know) nastygrams sent to the admins of course :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.29% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
