--- On Mon, 11/24/08, Dave Feustel <dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Dave Feustel <dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: F9 DOS? > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 6:56 PM > 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. > > -- I had that problem until I went to services and disabled sendmail > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
