Odds are good that you just had someone try to use a buffer overflow
explooit on your machine. What services do you have open? Did your
security log show anything exciting? I'm sure others on here would know
more than I about figuring out
a) What happened, and
b) if you've actually been hacked.
-Ken
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
>
>
> Hi folks
>
> This
>
> Dec 31 15:12:39 localhost rpc.statd[302]: gethostbyname
> error for ^X���^X���^Y���^Y���^Z���^Z���^[���^[���bffff760 8049710
> 8052c28687465676274736f6d616e797265206520726f7220726f66
>
>
> just appeared in my syslog. Other than pointing out that my
> machine thinks its name is localhost, does anyone know what this
> might mean ?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
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