If you'd like to not get these messages you can just put a line at the top of your /etc/hosts.allow file:
portmap: 134.58.X.Y : deny : severity local7.info You'll then need to edit your /etc/syslog.conf and add: local7.none;\ into the definition of messages which go to /var/log/messages. Then do a 'killall -HUP syslogd' and you should be set. Dietrich Beck wrote: > Hi, > > we have small PC cluster running Debian 2.1. Since a few days to of those > bother me with the following message: > "my_host portmap[6050]: connect from 134.58.X.Y to callit(ypserv): request > from unauthorized host". In principle that is o.k., because 134.58.X.Y should > have no access to our cluster. It is just, that this message appears once per > minute and only at two out of seven boxes. > > I checked with "tcpdump" and it seems, that 134.58.X.Y sends a request to the > address 134.58.255.255, which is then picked up by my_host (my_host has a > different IP number, of course). Does anybody has an idea why only 2 out of 7 > boxes have that behaviour? Since it is the same software it must be some > setting, maybe in /etc. But where? How I can prevent the "portmap" from > picking up the request? It simply annoys me. > > Greetings, > > Dietrich > > P.S. 134.58.X.X is a machine of a neighboring institute. It is not a hacker > attack. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
