On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:23:06PM -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Dave Feustel wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:20:33AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: >>> F9 Boot up this morning took forever. The system seemed to be stuck on starting >>> up sendmail. How to get around startups of services when startup hangs? > > sendmail hanging at startup is usually a DNS problem as requests are > timing out.... > >>> Also, My firewall is showing massive udp packets with state 1:0 from a single ip address >>> and I cannot ping to anything but my network ip address. Is this a sign of a DOS? >>> Everything was working great when I shutdown last night. > > Not necessarily, it could just be that Comcast was screwed up for a > while. They do use human being to maintain their network, and human > beings are known to make misteaks from time to time.... > >>> Thanks. >> >> Well, around 1215 I booted up F9 and now everything is working normally. >> I have no idea what the problem was earlier unless Comcast was down. > > Either its was Comcast, or the DOS stopped. (yeah, I know, not too useful!) Thanks anyways. Every bit of info about how to deal with DOS and exploits is appreciated. Book references or URLs are also welcom. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
