From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jan 31 22:44: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (unknown [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F86E37B491; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:43:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1009) id EC182590; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 00:43:49 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 00:43:49 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Tyler K McGeorge Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpc.statd Message-ID: <20010201004349.C7019@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Tyler K McGeorge , freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <000801c08c14$5c1839e0$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000801c08c14$5c1839e0$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org>; from treznor@sunflower.com on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 12:01:03AM -0600 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tyler K McGeorge (treznor@sunflower.com) wrote: > After I set up my BIND name daemon, I started getting the following message: > > Jan 31 16:12:45 palisor rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat: (then a whole bunch of gibberish, I would transcribe it, but it uses strange characters that aren't available in Windows.) > > I assume this means that named isn't starting before an important process... But I didn't change anything in the default rc... I am so very confused. Don't worry, methinks you are merely being probed for Linux-bugs. rpc.statd was flawed in some popular Linux distributions; users of those distributions who failed to install the correct binary patch (what a stupid way to distribute bug fixes!) will eventually find their machines probed and exploited. FreeBSD is not vulnerable. I used to get that message several times a month until I firewalled the portmapper service. See http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-17.html for more details. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message