Hi all, My ISP www.tele2.co.uk provides a permanent IP number via a radio connection that is always on. Someone else on the same gateway has complained to the ISP about my machine and produced this message...
"What looks like another Tele2 customer - 212.129.67.118 - is trying to connect to my machine every ten seconds or so, and has been for several days. I am getting the following messages in my daemon.log file: Jul 20 23:55:14 cats portmap[18955]: connect from 212.19.67.118 to callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host Jul 20 23:55:22 cats portmap[18956]: connect from 212.19.67.118 to callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host Jul 20 23:55:32 cats portmap[18957]: connect from 212.19.67.118 to callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host Jul 20 23:56:47 cats portmap[18958]: connect from 212.19.67.118 to callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host Jul 20 23:56:59 cats portmap[18959]: connect from 212.19.67.118 to callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host The first message was logged on July 16th:" This chap is rightly peeved. But does anyone know why this is happening and what I need to do to stop this? Thanks in advance. Patrick Wise Chinese Proverb: "If tired of computer winning at chess, try it at kick-boxing instead"
