Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:35:46 -0500 (EST) From: Stuart Krivis <stuart@apk.net> To: Frank Bonnet <bonnetf@bart.esiee.fr> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP address abuse ... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10001110832570.22232-100000@junior.apk.net> In-Reply-To: <200001111057.LAA17219@bart.esiee.fr>
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hi > > Our primary DNS runs FreeBSD and we are facing > a boring problem , some stupid student has > put the same IP address than the DNS on a Linux (mandrake) > machine , then our FreeBSD said "someone has taken my IP address" > and stop to serve our LAN ... > > Is it possible with FreeBSD to avoid such trouble ? > ( arpwatch is running on this machine ) Is the Linux machine on the same network segment as your nameserver? If not, you may be able to setup a static route in your router config and disable the Linux machine. Another option would be to simply unplug the Linux machine. :-) The student is disrupting network services. Don't you have a policy to deal with this? (Perhaps expulsion from school if he won't change the IP.) -- Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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