Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:14:49 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Dave Overton <dave@syix.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invalid hostname to sm_stat Message-ID: <20020313111449.A36322@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <009401c1ca07$bcd5baf0$2248abcd@leopard>; from dave@syix.com on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:51:52PM -0800 References: <009401c1ca07$bcd5baf0$2248abcd@leopard>
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:51:52PM -0800, Dave Overton wrote:
> Does anyone know what causes this? It’s a 4.5-stable box, been doing
> this occasionally since way back in the 4.2 days....
>
> Just curious if its something that anyone else has tracked down yet. I
> have numerous other BSD servers that don't do it.
>
> Mar 11 18:11:15 puma 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-
That's someone trying to hack your box using RPC. There's no bug here.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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