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In article <27BC18174C3CD2118F6000A0C99E423E026A17F3@CRPHEX02.NAVSSES.NAVY.MIL>, <MeriwetherDJ@nswccd.navy.mil> wrote: >Well, last night, my box was hit again.. same symptoms: > >All attempts to connect remotely receive a connection, but a login prompt >never comes up. What about other servers that this machine is running? Do they all hang, or can you get a response from

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:14:09 -0800 (PST) From: David Cantrell <david@slackware.com> To: slackware-security@slackware.com Subject: Security Patches for Slackware 7.0 Available There are several security updates available for Slackware 7.0. We will always post bug fixes and security fixes to the /patches subdirectory on the ftp site:

Well, last night, my box was hit again.. same symptoms: All attempts to connect remotely receive a connection, but a login prompt never comes up. When I went to the console and turned on the monitor, I had the login prompt, but written on to the screen was the message IPMASQ: Reverse ICMP: Checksum error from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx So, on this occasion, I thought I would post a summary of the

Many thanks to the moderator who pointed out errors and suggested the correct information on this post. Over half the ideas are due to him. ;) Don't forget this is about writing your own daemon or TCP program. Some of the ideas here will not happen with today's software that has been hardened. It is presented to prevent your software from being taken advantage of. Most often,

[Mod: This message is a reason *why* linux-security is moderated list. This is also a reason why Rogier, myself, Alan Cox and others really do not want to have completely open lists that deal with security related aspects of running a system as way too many people just jump to conclusions and give suggestions without doing any reasearch on a subject. -- alex (co-moderator of

After the recent attacks on the major servers on the web my ISP has decided to stop all ICMP messages from his ISP. I have red the RFCs and it seems that he cant do that... As a result pings and traceroutes will not work. I need a friendly person out there to tell me a way to break the news to him that he has to allow ICMP packets through his network... any suggestions would be helpfull [mod:

Hello, I have set up a Unix workstation as a Samba server. It seems that when the number of pc guests reaches 20, no other pc users can browse the files on the Samba server. Is this a known problem?? My configuration file is lised below: #======================= Global Settings ===================================== [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = ZYGOMIS

Here''s a neat trick for a machine running kerneld: not_root@machine$ /sbin/ifconfig isofs loads ''/lib/modules/(kernel version here)/fs/isofs.o''. /sbin/ifconfig when run as non-root queries a network interface for its configuration. However, if the interface is unknown it also tries to load the module that implements that interface using the name of the interface as