From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 16 7:14:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 254CC37B401 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 07:14:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13282 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Feb 2001 15:12:03 -0000 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:12:03 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: Artem Koutchine , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Efficiency [Was: Re: rpc.statd attack] Message-ID: <20010216171203.G474@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Cliff Sarginson , Artem Koutchine , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:03:44PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:03:44PM +0000, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:24:07PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:16:47PM +0300, Artem Koutchine wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > I am regulary getting this: > > > > > > > [snip (unsuccessful, useless against fbsd) attack log] > > > > > > > > What port should i close or log to detect the connection? I am sure > > > > this is a script > > > > kiddie, so no IP spoffing or anything tricky is envolved. I'd like log > > > > it with ipfw and > > > > kick that junkie butt. So, what port is it or as always with RPC it is > > > > a tricky business? > > > > > > If you consider rpcinfo -p | egrep -e 'udp.*status$' | awk '{print $4}' > > > to be a tricky business, then yes, it is a tricky business ;) > > > > Well, as people pointed out, I'm not awake yet :) > > > > rpcinfo -p | awk '($3 == "udp") && ($5 == "status") {print $4 }' > > > > ...works just as well, or even better, with less false alarms and more > > efficiency :) > > > As you can see makes all the difference :) > But this is under Solaris ... > > $ time rpcinfo -p | egrep -e 'udp.*status$' | awk '{print $4}' > 32790 > > real 0m0.12s > user 0m0.04s > sys 0m0.07s > > $ time rpcinfo -p | awk '($3 == "udp") && ($5 == "status") {print $4 }' > 32790 > > real 0m0.11s > user 0m0.05s > sys 0m0.04s Well, I still think it might be more efficient, at least in terms of memory usage and forking. But even without the efficiency argument, it *is* cleaner :) G'luck, Peter -- .siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message