Re: suspicious smbd connections

2003-12-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 03:33:54PM +0100, outsider wrote: But I have a dynamic IP. Every time I boot my system I get another IP-address. The worms are targetting random IP addresses. The IP address you have tomorrow is just as likely to get scanned as the one you have today. (Technically not

Re: suspicious smbd connections

2003-12-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 03:33:54PM +0100, outsider wrote: But I have a dynamic IP. Every time I boot my system I get another IP-address. The worms are targetting random IP addresses. The IP address you have tomorrow is just as likely to get scanned as the one you have today. (Technically not

Re: Attempts to poison bayesian systems

2003-12-23 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:36:20PM +, Dale Amon wrote: I have yet to see a false positive caused by this even though I get quite a lot of this stuff and routinely mark it as spam. I can't think of any other reason for someone to do it though. There has to be a point. Someone is going

Re: suspicious smbd connections

2003-12-23 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 07:01:01PM +0100, outsider wrote: Last time I frequently get messages like smbd[949]: refused connect from in my /var/log/syslog. Every time with new IP-address. What are these connections? Is somebody trying to scan me or what is the reason for these messages? You

Re: Attempts to poison bayesian systems

2003-12-23 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:36:20PM +, Dale Amon wrote: I have yet to see a false positive caused by this even though I get quite a lot of this stuff and routinely mark it as spam. I can't think of any other reason for someone to do it though. There has to be a point. Someone is going

Re: suspicious smbd connections

2003-12-23 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 07:01:01PM +0100, outsider wrote: Last time I frequently get messages like smbd[949]: refused connect from in my /var/log/syslog. Every time with new IP-address. What are these connections? Is somebody trying to scan me or what is the reason for these messages? You

Re: ipv6 and glibc

2003-12-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:21:37PM +0200, Baran YURDAGUL wrote: First of all sorry about this, because I am facing this problem on redhat. How can can I stop ipv6 resolving, when i make telnet to a host not in dns but in nis and files it take 1 minute to resolve this. nsswitch.conf is host :

Re: ipv6 and glibc

2003-12-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:21:37PM +0200, Baran YURDAGUL wrote: First of all sorry about this, because I am facing this problem on redhat. How can can I stop ipv6 resolving, when i make telnet to a host not in dns but in nis and files it take 1 minute to resolve this. nsswitch.conf is host :

Re: Fwd: Cron root@mars apt-get update apt-get -y upgrade

2003-11-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:23:52AM +0100, Linux wrote: The following looks a lot worse to me... bsdutils, mount util-linux, console-data, procps, zlib1g, gnupg, util-linux-locales Suggestions + help how I should do that ? See

Re: Fwd: Cron root@mars apt-get update apt-get -y upgrade

2003-11-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:23:52AM +0100, Linux wrote: The following looks a lot worse to me... bsdutils, mount util-linux, console-data, procps, zlib1g, gnupg, util-linux-locales Suggestions + help how I should do that ? See

Re: Mysterious process talking on 799=2049 tcp - what is using the ports?

2003-11-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:25:43AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: Nothing is using the port but it is in netstat add the -p switch to netstat, which will give you the PID that is associated with that socket. pgpyH61MipHbf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:31:05PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: Hmmm, so what? Are these problems somehow tied together? Furthermore, what is the probability that the system has really been cracked, and the logcheck message is not a false positive? I wonder, because it's not a server machine, it

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:07:23PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: I hope you've got some more ideas. I'm strictly following all the security updates, and have a light mix of woody and sid packages. run 'shutdown -rF now' See if the problem persists after the fsck. If it does, check the files

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:31:05PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: Hmmm, so what? Are these problems somehow tied together? Furthermore, what is the probability that the system has really been cracked, and the logcheck message is not a false positive? I wonder, because it's not a server machine, it

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:07:23PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: I hope you've got some more ideas. I'm strictly following all the security updates, and have a light mix of woody and sid packages. run 'shutdown -rF now' See if the problem persists after the fsck. If it does, check the files

Re: Can anyone help me ID who is trying to hack my system?

2003-10-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 06:45:39PM -0700, Alderbrook wrote: Can anyone help me identify who is trying to get into my system? They aren't trying to hack your system. They're just scanning for open proxy ports that they can abuse. This is the sort of issue that, if you run machines on the

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:19:43AM +0200, Stefano Salvi wrote: I think thisi is not wise: Only because you misunderstand my idea. - Why I must have services installed that I cannot use (are not started by default)? I didn't say anything about not starting by default. I said that they would

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:19:43AM +0200, Stefano Salvi wrote: I think thisi is not wise: Only because you misunderstand my idea. - Why I must have services installed that I cannot use (are not started by default)? I didn't say anything about not starting by default. I said that they would

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:59:16PM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs --

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:12:28AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: For what its worth, and without wanting a distro-religious war about it, Mandrake has a variety of security levels, which can be locally configured, and which can allow exactly this sort of behavior; Honestly, I think we can get away

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:01:26PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Until installing a package has the side effect of installing a network service. Having a default-deny-incoming firewall or some such would go a long way toward preventing accidental vulnerability exposure. Well, remember that the

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:59:16PM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running fam or nfs --

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:12:28AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: For what its worth, and without wanting a distro-religious war about it, Mandrake has a variety of security levels, which can be locally configured, and which can allow exactly this sort of behavior; Honestly, I think we can get away

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:01:26PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Until installing a package has the side effect of installing a network service. Having a default-deny-incoming firewall or some such would go a long way toward preventing accidental vulnerability exposure. Well, remember that the

Re: services installed and running out of the box

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:52:07PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Except, what is default? If you install a workstation task should you assume that you'll get open ports? (As the task packages pull in dependencies, etc.) I think it makes more sense to provide a safety net then to try to predict

Re: Versign has hijacked www.xmms.org

2003-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:08:29AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: I was surfing the Website http://www.xmms.org/ for new skins and at one klick... ...xmms was hijacked !!! No access on xmms posibel. Can anyone confirm this please... Please Cc: me. Nope. Worked just fine for me. I

delegation-only patch for woody's bind9?

2003-09-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Does anybody have a copy of the patch for delegation-only functionality in woody's bind9? ISC seems to have taken it down from their site. It used to be listed at http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/delegation-only.html, but that page now only contains links to the latest versions of bind (which

delegation-only patch for woody's bind9?

2003-09-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Does anybody have a copy of the patch for delegation-only functionality in woody's bind9? ISC seems to have taken it down from their site. It used to be listed at http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/delegation-only.html, but that page now only contains links to the latest versions of bind (which

Re: Default permissions for /dev/log

2003-09-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 08:33:29PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: I've just found that on all my systems /dev/log has rw-rw-rw- permissions. Is that Debian default? It's the default just about everywhere. If it was not the case, then you'd have to put every user that you want to be able

Re: Default permissions for /dev/log

2003-09-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 08:33:29PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: I've just found that on all my systems /dev/log has rw-rw-rw- permissions. Is that Debian default? It's the default just about everywhere. If it was not the case, then you'd have to put every user that you want to be able

Re: Eric Allman has changed jobs

2003-08-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:29:23PM -0700, Ted Deppner wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:46:22PM -0700, Eric Allman's vacation droid wrote: I have left the University. Your mail is being forwarded to me. [blah blah blah] Am I the only one that finds the author of Sendmail spamming a mailing

Re: Eric Allman has changed jobs

2003-08-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:29:23PM -0700, Ted Deppner wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:46:22PM -0700, Eric Allman's vacation droid wrote: I have left the University. Your mail is being forwarded to me. [blah blah blah] Am I the only one that finds the author of Sendmail spamming a mailing

Re: The possibility of malicious code in the Debian unstable libtool-1.5 package

2003-08-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:23:44AM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Thus, wouldn't it be the right thing to do to withdraw the Debian unstable libtool-1.5 package until GNU has a chance to check the tarball? (And of course after the checked version is available, the tarball used to create the

Re: The possibility of malicious code in the Debian unstable libtool-1.5 package

2003-08-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:23:44AM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Thus, wouldn't it be the right thing to do to withdraw the Debian unstable libtool-1.5 package until GNU has a chance to check the tarball? (And of course after the checked version is available, the tarball used to create the

Re: Looking for a simple SSL-CA package

2003-08-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 07:38:25PM +0200, Adam ENDRODI wrote: Perhaps I just misinterpret the terminology, but I've had the impression that every certificate should be signed, so should the root of the tree too. Since they sit at the top of the hierarchy they must be self signed. Am I

Re: Looking for a simple SSL-CA package

2003-08-23 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 07:38:25PM +0200, Adam ENDRODI wrote: Perhaps I just misinterpret the terminology, but I've had the impression that every certificate should be signed, so should the root of the tree too. Since they sit at the top of the hierarchy they must be self signed. Am I

Re: Simple e-mail virus scanner

2003-08-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:44:08AM +0200, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: So, I'm wondering, does anybody know about any such approach? After getting sick of all the virus crap in my inbox I installed the following in /etc/exim/system_filter.txt: This approach yields a high false

Re: Debian Stable server hacked

2003-08-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:23:30PM +0200, Adam ENDRODI wrote: No, it really doesn't. It might stop some common implementations of exploits, but that's about it. There are many papers available which describe the shortcomings of this kind of prevention. Could you provide some pointers on

Re: Simple e-mail virus scanner

2003-08-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:44:08AM +0200, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: So, I'm wondering, does anybody know about any such approach? After getting sick of all the virus crap in my inbox I installed the following in /etc/exim/system_filter.txt: This approach yields a high false

Re: Debian Stable server hacked

2003-08-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:23:30PM +0200, Adam ENDRODI wrote: No, it really doesn't. It might stop some common implementations of exploits, but that's about it. There are many papers available which describe the shortcomings of this kind of prevention. Could you provide some pointers on

Re: Simple e-mail virus scanner

2003-08-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:56:29PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: So, I'm wondering, does anybody know about any such approach? After getting sick of all the virus crap in my inbox I installed the following in /etc/exim/system_filter.txt: ##

Re: honeyd and libdnet

2003-07-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:41:01PM +0200, Thomas Bechtold wrote: Now my questions are: - How works DECnet[3]? DECnet has nothing to do with libdnet or honeyd. I don't know what gave you that idea. Unless you *really* know that you need DECnet, you don't need it. - How to configure

Re: execute permissions in /tmp

2003-07-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:43:02PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: This is at least the third time this has come up that I remember. However, absolute statements like *can not* get me thinking: Is there any any sort of file that can't be executed from /tmp? What about statically linked ELF

Re: execute permissions in /tmp

2003-07-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 09:22:45PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: I have a complaint/opinion/statement to express. It seems that every now and then when I run 'apt-get upgrade' i get a lot of errors about Can't exec /tmp/config.x: Permission denied at I like to keep my Debian boxen nice

Re: execute permissions in /tmp

2003-07-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 09:34:16PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: # cp /bin/ls /tmp/ # /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /bin/ls ^^^ Naturally I meant /tmp/ls on the second line there. I'm sure you figured that out on your own, but just for the record... noah pgp0.pgp

Re: execute permissions in /tmp

2003-07-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:43:02PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: This is at least the third time this has come up that I remember. However, absolute statements like *can not* get me thinking: Is there any any sort of file that can't be executed from /tmp? What about statically linked ELF

Re: execute permissions in /tmp

2003-07-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 09:22:45PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: I have a complaint/opinion/statement to express. It seems that every now and then when I run 'apt-get upgrade' i get a lot of errors about Can't exec /tmp/config.x: Permission denied at I like to keep my Debian boxen nice

Re: execute permissions in /tmp

2003-07-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 09:34:16PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: # cp /bin/ls /tmp/ # /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /bin/ls ^^^ Naturally I meant /tmp/ls on the second line there. I'm sure you figured that out on your own, but just for the record... noah pgph5wAJkMhjE.pgp

Re: noboby with a shell !!

2003-03-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:11:58PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: Well yes it could :) As long as the user has no valid password it's not very usefull. Take a look into the /etc/shadow and in the second field you'll find ! or * indicating that this user has a invalid password. See man 5 shadow.

Re: speaking of squid ports...

2003-03-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:15:28PM -0500, Kevin Cheek wrote: I believe that UDP port is for receiving DNS responses. Umm... No. It's used for ICP, a protocol for intercommunication between squid caches. For example, at my site we have two different caches. One is basically transparent.

Re: noboby with a shell !!

2003-03-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:11:58PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: Well yes it could :) As long as the user has no valid password it's not very usefull. Take a look into the /etc/shadow and in the second field you'll find ! or * indicating that this user has a invalid password. See man 5 shadow.

Re: speaking of squid ports...

2003-03-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:15:28PM -0500, Kevin Cheek wrote: I believe that UDP port is for receiving DNS responses. Umm... No. It's used for ICP, a protocol for intercommunication between squid caches. For example, at my site we have two different caches. One is basically transparent.

Re: looking for a good source to start learning about kerberos

2003-03-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:18:23PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: After reading the responses for my email about NIS security, I was convinced that it's time to learn about ldap w/kerberos. In the ldap-howto's I've read there were references to kerberos by MIT and hemidal. looking in my aptitude

Re: looking for a good source to start learning about kerberos

2003-03-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:18:23PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: After reading the responses for my email about NIS security, I was convinced that it's time to learn about ldap w/kerberos. In the ldap-howto's I've read there were references to kerberos by MIT and hemidal. looking in my aptitude

Re: OT: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

2003-03-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:40:00AM -0600, David Ehle wrote: As I understand it, OpenAFS is IBM sortware that was opensourced. Coda was a wholely opensource project to implement AFS. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. No, CODA is not simply an AFS implementation. It is based on

Re: OT: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

2003-03-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:40:00AM -0600, David Ehle wrote: As I understand it, OpenAFS is IBM sortware that was opensourced. Coda was a wholely opensource project to implement AFS. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. No, CODA is not simply an AFS implementation. It is based on

Re: OpenSSH updates

2003-02-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:44:26AM -0500, Odair wrote: Is there a .deb for OpenSSH 3.5p1 ? Yes, in unstable. Not stable. What makes you think you need it? noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key:

Re: OpenSSH updates

2003-02-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:44:26AM -0500, Odair wrote: Is there a .deb for OpenSSH 3.5p1 ? Yes, in unstable. Not stable. What makes you think you need it? noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key:

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 05:00:42PM +0100, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: It's great. But there is no alternative. And there should be. That's because there doesn't need to be an alternative. Rrdtool is a specialized application to fill a niche. Any old database will work in situation where you are

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 05:00:42PM +0100, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: It's great. But there is no alternative. And there should be. That's because there doesn't need to be an alternative. Rrdtool is a specialized application to fill a niche. Any old database will work in situation where you are

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:59:26PM +, gabe wrote: I would like to know what ppl think is the best package for monitor servers, at my last work place they were installing mon. In my new job they use Nagios, which I'm not to sure about due to the fact that installation / configuration

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:59:26PM +, gabe wrote: I would like to know what ppl think is the best package for monitor servers, at my last work place they were installing mon. In my new job they use Nagios, which I'm not to sure about due to the fact that installation / configuration

Re: Question about snort binaries..

2003-01-30 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:35:05AM -0800, Anne Carasik wrote: Is there a way to define that I only want to use the unstable packages just related to snort or do I have to change my entire distribution to unstable? Testing distribution has 1.8.7. No. You would have to pull in all the

Re: Question about snort binaries..

2003-01-30 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:35:05AM -0800, Anne Carasik wrote: Is there a way to define that I only want to use the unstable packages just related to snort or do I have to change my entire distribution to unstable? Testing distribution has 1.8.7. No. You would have to pull in all the

Re: FW: Updated OPENSSL package for Debian?

2003-01-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:00:11AM -0700, Miles Beck wrote: Is there an updated OPENSSL package for Debian greater than OpenSSL-0.9.6c? Yes, 0.9.6c-2.woody.1. It contains all the security fixes present in openssl-0.9.6g. ~/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.21$ perl Makefile.PL Checking for OpenSSL-0.9.6g or

Re: FW: Updated OPENSSL package for Debian?

2003-01-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:08:23PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: So the version from testing should do. You may want to download the source package and compile it yourself to avoid having to upgrade dependencies (I don't know, just speculating). Why tell him that? What

Re: FW: Updated OPENSSL package for Debian?

2003-01-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:08:23PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: So the version from testing should do. You may want to download the source package and compile it yourself to avoid having to upgrade dependencies (I don't know, just speculating). Why tell him that? What

Re: Bind9 stopped after 34 days of uptime

2002-12-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:16:12AM -0500, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: This is on a Pentium 100 MHz with around 32 MB of RAM. The box itself has been up 134 days. This is the primary internet server for zionlth.org. Traffic to this domain is modest... I have a feeling that it's possible to

Re: Bind9 stopped after 34 days of uptime

2002-12-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:16:12AM -0500, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: This is on a Pentium 100 MHz with around 32 MB of RAM. The box itself has been up 134 days. This is the primary internet server for zionlth.org. Traffic to this domain is modest... I have a feeling that it's possible to

Re: Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:36:52AM +0100, Sander Smeenk wrote: Therefore I would more like to either remove the entire package *OR* add a debconf / other intrusive warning that tells users that the package gives them a fake sense of security and instead they should considder installing snort

Re: SSH

2002-12-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:42:03AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Woody is shipping OpenSSH_3.4p1. Before the security team confirm this vulnerability and release the upgrade package, is there any way to patch and repackage the woody openssh? I just can't find the patch against this

Re: SSH

2002-12-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:42:03AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Woody is shipping OpenSSH_3.4p1. Before the security team confirm this vulnerability and release the upgrade package, is there any way to patch and repackage the woody openssh? I just can't find the patch against this

Re: VPN + Roadwarrior

2002-12-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:39:27AM -0500, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: If you implement IPSec, my experience (as of 6 months ago) with IPSec is that it works great, as long as you use the same implementation on all host. I don't really agree with that. I have used several different IPsec

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:51:11PM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: IIRC important new versions of existing packages are allowed into point releases, so maybe Woody's main Snort engine binary packages can be updated when 3.0r1 happens. That won't happen sorry. That's

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:51:11PM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: IIRC important new versions of existing packages are allowed into point releases, so maybe Woody's main Snort engine binary packages can be updated when 3.0r1 happens. That won't happen sorry. That's

Re: pop mail recommendations

2002-12-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:35:04PM +0100, Christian Storch wrote: Look at brand new http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/cyrus21-imapd.html ssl included! Cyrus definitely rocks, but it can't be described as lightweight in any sense of the word. It's very powerful, and would be my first

Re: pop mail recommendations

2002-12-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:35:04PM +0100, Christian Storch wrote: Look at brand new http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/cyrus21-imapd.html ssl included! Cyrus definitely rocks, but it can't be described as lightweight in any sense of the word. It's very powerful, and would be my first

Re: File system integrity checkers - comparison?

2002-12-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:44:12PM -0800, Johannes Graumann wrote: and was wondering as to what this group is prefering and why or whether there are other more trusted alternatives. My main argument ageinst tripwire is it's pseudo-commercial source. I use tripwire and recommend it strongly.

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:18:52AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: I've been running Snort for a month or so now on a Woody box at work, and am now wondering whether the Debian Project (or packager) has a Plan for providing signature file updates to users of the stable distribution. This has been

Re: File system integrity checkers - comparison?

2002-12-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:44:12PM -0800, Johannes Graumann wrote: and was wondering as to what this group is prefering and why or whether there are other more trusted alternatives. My main argument ageinst tripwire is it's pseudo-commercial source. I use tripwire and recommend it strongly.

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:18:52AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: I've been running Snort for a month or so now on a Woody box at work, and am now wondering whether the Debian Project (or packager) has a Plan for providing signature file updates to users of the stable distribution. This has been

Re: test of non-subscribed user

2002-11-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:08:40AM -0800, Ted Parvu wrote: This is a test to see if a non-subscribed user can post to the debian security list. This is only a test. If you are reading this, then the answer is yes and that just doesn't seem right. *plonk* This has been discussed *at

Re: test of non-subscribed user

2002-11-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:08:40AM -0800, Ted Parvu wrote: This is a test to see if a non-subscribed user can post to the debian security list. This is only a test. If you are reading this, then the answer is yes and that just doesn't seem right. *plonk* This has been discussed *at

Re: security updates for testing?

2002-11-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:19:30PM +0100, Sythos wrote: If someone has testing version on his machine should link stable or unstable for security update? Neither. Unstable doesn't get security updates. Security updates to stable will typically be to older versions of software than what

Re: VPN question

2002-11-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 07:17:31PM +0100, Andrea Frigido wrote: I have just installed kernel-patch-freeswan STABLE package, in the make menuconfig menu it's possible to enable Blowfish and other additional chifer kernel modules. Do you think the unstable package is the better choice however?

Re: VPN question

2002-11-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 07:17:31PM +0100, Andrea Frigido wrote: I have just installed kernel-patch-freeswan STABLE package, in the make menuconfig menu it's possible to enable Blowfish and other additional chifer kernel modules. Do you think the unstable package is the better choice however?

Re: Bind issues

2002-11-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:28:26PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: 1. apt-get source bind 2. wget the pacth file from www.isc.org 3. apply the patch 4. dpkg-buildpackage 5. dpkg -i bind*.deb That will conceivably work *now*. However, news of the vulnerability was announced before the patches

Re: Bind issues

2002-11-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:45:19PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: Any word from the security team on what's going on with potato's bind? Both potato and woody are vulnerable. Fixes are on there way, but disclosure of this vulnerability was very badly organized (not by the security team), and the

Re: Bind issues

2002-11-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:28:26PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: 1. apt-get source bind 2. wget the pacth file from www.isc.org 3. apply the patch 4. dpkg-buildpackage 5. dpkg -i bind*.deb That will conceivably work *now*. However, news of the vulnerability was announced before the patches

Re: Bind issues

2002-11-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:45:19PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: Any word from the security team on what's going on with potato's bind? Both potato and woody are vulnerable. Fixes are on there way, but disclosure of this vulnerability was very badly organized (not by the security team), and the

Re: DHCP

2002-10-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:35:01AM -0500, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: Laptop (IPSEC CLient) - WAP - Server (DHCP AND IPSEC Host) - Local Network. In order to get inside the network you will have to get past the IPSEC Host, which of course will require a key that has a valid certificate from the

Re: DHCP - rootkit

2002-10-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:12:54PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: i say modifying files is a give away .. that says come find me which is trivial since its modified binaries If they do it right, it's not a giveaway. If they're quick, thorough, and accurate, they can certainly do it right. On

Re: DHCP

2002-10-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:35:01AM -0500, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: Laptop (IPSEC CLient) - WAP - Server (DHCP AND IPSEC Host) - Local Network. In order to get inside the network you will have to get past the IPSEC Host, which of course will require a key that has a valid certificate from the

Re: DHCP - rootkit

2002-10-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:12:54PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: i say modifying files is a give away .. that says come find me which is trivial since its modified binaries If they do it right, it's not a giveaway. If they're quick, thorough, and accurate, they can certainly do it right. On

Re: AIDE Information Overload

2002-10-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:36:06PM +0800, Dion Mendel wrote: Which files do people exclude when using integrity checkers (e.g. aide/tripwire etc)? I don't typically exclude many files, but I often limit the changes that tripwire notifies me about. For example, if one of my users changes their

Re: AIDE Information Overload

2002-10-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:36:06PM +0800, Dion Mendel wrote: Which files do people exclude when using integrity checkers (e.g. aide/tripwire etc)? I don't typically exclude many files, but I often limit the changes that tripwire notifies me about. For example, if one of my users changes their

Re: [OT] secure, minimal Debian installation for linux-based thin clients?

2002-10-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin clients. I like Debian, so that's one obvious choice. However, a standard Debian install (e.g. what I run on my machine) gives us much more than we need. Towards

Re: [OT] secure, minimal Debian installation for linux-based thin clients?

2002-10-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin clients. I like Debian, so that's one obvious choice. However, a standard Debian install (e.g. what I run on my machine) gives us much more than we need. Towards

Re: port 16001 and 111

2002-10-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 07:15:08PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: The same answer as a luser and as a root. What should I deduct from this? It's just so weird as I'm not running NFS, NIS or any other thingie that should use this port... What do you get from: netstat -ntlp | grep 16001 --

Re: port 16001 and 111

2002-10-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 07:15:08PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: The same answer as a luser and as a root. What should I deduct from this? It's just so weird as I'm not running NFS, NIS or any other thingie that should use this port... What do you get from: netstat -ntlp | grep 16001 --

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