From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jan 11 11: 0:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1A514E52 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 10:59:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id KAA10759; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 10:59:36 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id KAA20398; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 10:59:35 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.237]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id KAA21988; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 10:58:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <387B7E6B.2B5433B@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:03:07 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Bonnet Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP address abuse ... References: <200001111057.LAA17219@bart.esiee.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Frank Bonnet wrote: > > 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 ) You do have sledgehammers in .fr, don't you? Take one and bash his machine into several thousand small pieces, then explain to him that stealing IP addresses is a TRES bad thing to do. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message