On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, William B. Herman wrote:
> It seems that I have people who are trying to telnet into my machine.
> They seem to be either changing their ISP or spoofing their IP
> address. There is no reason these addresses should be telneting into
> our machine. My guess is they are tr
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On 17/01/00 at 19:57 William B. Herman wrote:
>I cannot disable telnet right now (some access points do not have an SSH
>clients available). All the security updates have been installed. And I
>currently use IPChains for a basic firewall. How safe am
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Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: System Access Attempts
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, William B. Herman wrote:
>
> > It seems that I have people who are trying to telnet into my machine.
They
> > seem to be either changing their ISP or spoofing the
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, William B. Herman wrote:
> It seems that I have people who are trying to telnet into my machine. They
> seem to be either changing their ISP or spoofing their IP address. There is
> no reason these addresses should be telneting into our machine. My guess is
> they are try
* William B. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> It seems that I have people who are trying to telnet into my machine. They
> seem to be either changing their ISP or spoofing their IP address. There is
> no reason these addresses should be telneting into our machine. My guess is
> they are try
Best way, as in most definite: turn of your telnet server - comment out
the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf, then killall -HUP inetd
Then use SSH for your own connections.
Nobody will be able to get in via your telnet daemon if it isn't
running... but these folks will probably just go aft
