Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 12:25:07 -0800 (PST) From: Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Someone trying to route to my machine? Message-ID: <XFMail.990403122507.nicole@nmhtech.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpu2uyo584.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 03-Apr-99 My Secret Spies Reported That Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com> writes:
>> Below are some messages I don't understand. Is someone trying to
>> route to my machine to do something? [...]
>>
>> Mar 29 03:47:43 ton Forwarded from XXXXXXX: Forwarded from
>> XXXXXXXX: routed[72]: static route 203.150.128.4/32 --> 0.0.0.0
>> impossibly lacks ifp
>
> Why do you run routed? Unless that box is a backbone router on your
> LAN/WAN, you do not need, and should not run, routed.
>
Yes, you are correct. I have turned it off, I never noticed it on. I have been
migrating my configs since 2.2.5 and I think it was on by default then or
something. It certainly is a boneheaded thing to have on. (wap)
Even so, if someone detected I was running routed, could they use that to try
to route to a machine for some nefarius reason?
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