From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 12 14:15:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7A437B404 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:15:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2CMEn136376; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:14:49 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:14:49 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Dave Overton Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invalid hostname to sm_stat Message-ID: <20020313111449.A36322@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <009401c1ca07$bcd5baf0$2248abcd@leopard> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <009401c1ca07$bcd5baf0$2248abcd@leopard>; from dave@syix.com on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:51:52PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:51:52PM -0800, Dave Overton wrote: > Does anyone know what causes this? It’s a 4.5-stable box, been doing > this occasionally since way back in the 4.2 days.... > > Just curious if its something that anyone else has tracked down yet. I > have numerous other BSD servers that don't do it. > > Mar 11 18:11:15 puma rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat: > ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%236x > %n%137x%n%10x%n%192x%nM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM- > ^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM- > ^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM- That's someone trying to hack your box using RPC. There's no bug here. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive." - Ferris Bueller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message