Hugo van der Kooij said:

>The problem clearly lies with the unprotected machines.

>Nessus is just one way to trigger their suicidal tendencies. I should not 
>worry about these host as anyone can pickup an install namp for windows 
>these days and blow these machines to pieces.

A good example of a DoS problem lies in inetd.conf on Solaris 2.6 and other
versions:

xaudio   stream tcp   wait root /usr/openwin/bin/Xaserver Xaserver -noauth -inetd

There is no /usr/openwin/bin/Xaserver. When nmap hits this port, it will loop
there forever, using up all the cpu on the scanned box. Unfortunately, that
line is not commented out in inetd.conf.
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Rick Kelly  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  www.rmkhome.com
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