You need to install the patches for bind. The bind packages in 6.1 have
a well exploited security hole. See
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh61-errata-security.html
Do it now!!!
Fred
Dan Horth wrote:
>
> ah - weird - we were getting all sorts of other probes reported
> previously which I was trapping and sending off security alerts to
> cert.org the like - so I should be following these up too? is there
> any way I can log who's doing these probes?
>
> kinda keen to report such activity after losing a whole load of time
> and work to a hacked server a year or so ago :(
>
> we're just using the bind supplied with 6.1 install - have been
> keeping up to date on security patches religiously too since the
> break-in...
>
> At 7:40 PM -0600 3/22/00, Vidiot wrote:
> >You are being probed, looking for a bad version of bind so that they can
> >get into your system.
> >
> >You ARE using the latest version of bind, aren't you? If so, you can ignore
> >the messages. If not, you better put on the latest bind RPM and soon.
>
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