Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:52:54 -0400 From: ag786@yfn.ysu.edu (Barry Bouwsma) To: tom@uniserve.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo Message-ID: <E0z8WGs-000573-00@yfn2.ysu.edu>
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>> Aug 17 12:27:21 marley inetd[157]: chargen from 131.114.21.10 > > You should probably disable the chargen service in /etc/inetd.conf It >doesn't seem to have much these days, except to allow outsiders to use >your system to launch DoS of attacks. Actually, this chargen is running on port 119 of this news swerver, with the real NNTP port elsewhere. It's just that a peer or two has botched the configuration and is no longer connecting to the proper port, using the wrong one by default... It's left as an exercise for the reader to determine the reasoning behind greeting a few curious NNTP explorers daily with chargen (hint: take a look at the NNTP port of news-feed.inet.tele.dk) Barry Bouwsma, Bastard Newsadmin From Hell, Tele Danmark Internet et al. -- Barry Bouwsma, <barryb@tuke.sk> Intanet an' Netwerkin' gooru-type kind o' ner to be found in the Swiss Appenzell eating cheese or biking somewhere in the area, hacking to Internet connectivity This sig is five lines long. Check your newsreader configuration if you do no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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