On Sunday 07 July 2002 21:45, Craig wrote:
> Wouldn't the dns utilities package have been included with Dachstein
> CD which is what I'm running? How can I check if I do or don't have
> it? Thank you.
>
LIke Jeff had stated before, these are among tools that a cracker could
use if he/she had compromised your firewall and LEAF distro's include
scarce few of them. PacketFilter has gone to the point of not including
"ping" and "traceroute" utilities. "nslookup" could be used to query a
private LAN DNS server.  Most of us figure that you can use
these utilities from a workstation behind the firewall instead. The
clearest way of testing whether one of these utilities are included
within the system is to try to use it.... if you get "command not
found", it is probably not included in the OS.

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~Lynn Avants
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