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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:32:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Christopher G. Petrilli" <petrilli@dworkin.amber.org>
To:        Espen Torseth <Espen.Torseth@sds.no>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Large-scale scan of SNMP ports
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980714093140.22330A-100000@dworkin.amber.org>
In-Reply-To: <81A91106E131D111BA8500608C23A6620CDFF8@nt1gj.da.posten.no>

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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Espen Torseth wrote:

> There is the possibility that someone has started "auto-discovery" in
> HP-OpenView,
> CA UniCenter, etc. and given the wrong net-adress/subnet-mask. This has
> happend
> before, and will happen again...

Also, last time I used HPOV, by default it scanned 0.0.0.0/0, meaning
EVERYTHING in the world.  I know this because *I* accidentally did
this... fortuately it was behind a firewall :-)  But this can be a
common problem, what I would recommend is that unless there's some
reason, you should block all SNMP traffic at your router, in BOTH
directions (to prevent yourself from succumbing to potential problems).

Chris
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