From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 14 14:59:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from www.kpi.com.au (www.kpi.com.au [203.39.132.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C9AB37B419 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:59:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from kpi.com.au (localhost.kpi.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by www.kpi.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA65889; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:07:18 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from johnsa@kpi.com.au) Message-ID: <3BF2F73A.5855391D@kpi.com.au> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:59:06 +1100 From: Andrew Johns X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Probst Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AdoreWorm References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011114183520.01e71d20@MailServer> <5.1.0.14.2.20011114215959.01e4bd90@MailServer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stefan Probst wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > At 09:58 14.11.2001 -0500, you wrote: > ------------------------- > >There is no reason I can think of to use > >it [telnetd] on any modern server, because ssh clients are widely and freely > >available for every platform. > > I will give you some reasons: > 1. Until a few weeks ago, Vietnam was behind a nation-wide firewall, which > didn't let ssh pass. I had no choice than to do everything via telnetd. Why can't you run sshd on port 23? Surely they don't examine connections to determine the actual protocol running? -- Andrew Johns ================================================================ BUGS:This utility is a prototype which lasted several years past its expiration date and is greatly in need of death. - from FreeBSD sysinstall man page To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message