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Subject: Re: strange messages
To: mitayai@dreaming.org (Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 06:28:32 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103080903370.79839-100000@castle.dreaming.org> from "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" at Mar 08, 2001 09:08:25 AM
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rpc.statd has known problems. 

Please look at http://www.cert.org/ and look for rpc.statd.

I would be concerned, but that's me.

Most RPC services are just big holes, when opened to the
Internet. (My opinion. If you disagree, I already agree with you. Fine.)



Troy

> 
> 
> I noticed the following messages in my logs... anything i should be
> worried about? Is there a way to log this better next time so i can get
> IPs and such?
> 
> Regards,
> Mit
> 
> Weirdness:
> 
> Mar  7 00:07:55 machine rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat: ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%236x%n%137x%n%10x%n%192x%nM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^!
!
>  PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^P
> Mar  7 00:07:55 machine /kernel: -^PM-^PM-^P
> 
> System:
> 
> FreeBSD machine 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #3: Mon Feb 19 11:19:05 EST
> 2001     root@machine:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/machine  i386
> 
> 
> -- 
> ---
> Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe
> Toronto, Ontario, Canada
> mitayai@dreaming.org
> 
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