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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:48:29 -0800
From: "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com>
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To: Tyler K McGeorge <treznor@sunflower.com>
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Subject: Re: rpc.statd
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> Tyler K McGeorge wrote:
> 
> After I set up my BIND name daemon, I started getting the following message:
> 
> Jan 31 16:12:45 palisor    rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat: (then a
> whole bunch of gibberish, I would transcribe it, but it uses strange
> characters that aren't available in Windows.)
> 
> I assume this means that named isn't starting before an important process...
> But I didn't change anything in the default rc... I am so very confused.
> 
> Please help,
> Ty


This has been posted several times, somebody is trying to gain
access to your computer using a weakness in Linux, it has no
effectin FreeBSD, if you want to read more, check this page:

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-17.html

saludos

raymundo


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