Tyler K McGeorge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> After I set up my BIND name daemon, I started getting the following message:
>
> Jan 31 16:12:45 palisor rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat: (then a whole
>bunch of gibberish, I would transcribe it, but it uses strange characters that aren't
>available in Windows.)
>
> I assume this means that named isn't starting before an important process... But I
>didn't change anything in the default rc... I am so very confused.
Don't worry, methinks you are merely being probed for Linux-bugs.
rpc.statd was flawed in some popular Linux distributions; users of
those distributions who failed to install the correct binary patch
(what a stupid way to distribute bug fixes!) will eventually find
their machines probed and exploited. FreeBSD is not vulnerable.
I used to get that message several times a month until I firewalled
the portmapper service.
See http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-17.html for more details.
--
Christopher Farley
www.northernbrewer.com
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