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Date:      Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:04:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com>
To:        Anton Vladimirov <admin128@mail.ru>
Cc:        <security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Timecounter "TSC"  frequency
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103181602150.61607-100000@mail.wlcg.com>
In-Reply-To: <174114006789.20010318230353@mail.ru>

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Are you running ntpd?  If so, then that was it setting the system
date/time.  The message you had the day before looks like a port scan of
some sort, maybe nmap.  Its not unusual to be portscanned.

Robert Simmons
Systems Administrator
http://www.wlcg.com/

On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Anton Vladimirov wrote:

> Hello people
>
> Today I received some strange message from
> my security check output, which I've never
> received before:
>
> ==============
> my.hostname.com kernel log messages:
> > Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 367501498 Hz
> ==============
>
> "my.hostname.com is the name of my host
> (changed just in case of security holes)
>
> What does it mean?
>
> By the way, one day before this
> I received the following:
> > icmp-response bandwidth limit 677/200 pps
> > icmp-response bandwidth limit 245/200 pps
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Anton                          mailto:admin128@mail.ru
>
>
>
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