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[ILUG] Possible scan / attack

[ILUG] Possible scan / attack

Petko Alov palov at bio.bas.bg
Fri Jun 9 08:52:55 IST 2000


> 
> Looks like it tried to e-mail root it bounced ... add www.somehost.ie to
> the /etc/sendmail.cw file .. should make it accept the e-mails for that
> address..
> 
> Dave.
> 
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 	I got the following mail to the root account on a colocated box
> > (let's call it somehost.ie for the sake of this discussion) at ESAT's web
> > farm recently.

It seems you got both problems: nessus scan and missing 
host in sendmail.cw. Really, missing www.somehost.ie in 
sendmail.cw is not a problem - if you intend to use 
smbdy at somedomain.ie adresses


Regards,

Petko

============================
Petko S. Alov

System Administrator,
BIO.BAS.BG

palov at bio.bas.bg
(+359-2) 979-2175
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