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...uct a shim involving Samba4's RPC proxy server, to correctly change passwords from these Windows clients. While certainly not a solution for a production environment, it shows us a means forward for fixing this issue, using existing code, and known algorithms. As you are all aware, with the Sasser worm out and about, applying this fix is no longer optional, and we are working hard on finding a solution. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org Student Network Administrator, H...

...pon some issues upon block policies in firewalls. Basically you can choose a firewall to send resets back as answer upon probes etc to not allowed ports, or you can choose a firewall to drop the packets. In general i think just dropping is the better one. Consider the lastest worms like blaster and sasser. How many hits would some firewalls encounter on blocked ports from such worms on bussy networks? If a firewall has to send resets upon each hit, the firewall is very bussy sending out resets. On very bussy firewalls it may even lead to a serious degree of resource starvation? Simply dropping these...

Hi guys, Sorry if this is a little offtopic, but I was wandering what can one do to prevent/stop arp flooding ? Thanks, Alex -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by LG-Network(http://www.lgnet.ro), and is believed to be clean.

Hello List, We just migrated from a PPC Xserve to an Intel Xserve. I used "rsync" to bring everyone's home directories over, and in the back of my mind wondered about how it would handle the binary index files... only one way to find out! :) Once I tried to login to IMAP, I got the following results: May 6 19:46:48 posh dovecot[1169]: IMAP(cabel): Rebuilding index file