Scott: I just had the same experience. After scanning a unpatched Solaris 8 system, inetd was consumming most of the cpu time. Killing and restarting inetd fixed the problem. I guess I need to install all the recommended patches. Rick Hnath Agere Systems
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Bolte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 7:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: port scan locking up Solaris inetd? Has anyone else found that an nmap port scan can lock up inetd on a Solaris 8 box? I've gotten reports for a while that even safe nessus scans were causing problems with some Solaris boxes in a data center at work. I've been working with the admins there trying to identify which plugin was causing the problem. Yesterday I tried two simple port scans, of just 20 ports mind you. One scan was for UDP (-sU) while the other was a stealth TCP scan (-sS). To my surprise, that was enough to cause a Solaris 8 system's inetd locked up for telnet and ftp access. Anyone else seen such things? Scott
