On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, James wrote: > I'm the only admin. I found the behavior with a gentoo system, a debian system > and any number of different embedded targets all isolated on a flat hub. > No DNS, auth, or other fancy stuff going on. Dirt simple class C (/24) > network.
That doesn't mean that the telnetd will not *try* and do a reverse DNS or ident lookup though does it? > Yep this is the approach, but it'll take some time. I was hoping for > 'short circuit analysis' i.e. surely somebody knows the schema of > telnet's implementation on gentoo? Surely there is an easy way to > install some very old, simple telnet code on the portable, alias it > to another name, like simpletelnet, and let me get on with work, so > as to avoid, playing code_detective on what paranoid security minds > have done to telnet on gentoo. Use the Source, Luke. -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
