Re: tcp syn flood and /proc configuration

2002-05-07 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:45:32AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > But this option seems to bring some side-effect. Is there any > alternative? imho the better way is to use syncookie. problems written on the ip-sysctl documentation are more or less normal. there's not a very good way to know if

Re: tcp syn flood and /proc configuration

2002-05-07 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello Vincent Hanquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, But this option seems to bring some side-effect. Is there any alternative? tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket overflow

Re: RE APT-GET Problems

2002-05-07 Thread Peter Cordes
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:54:09PM -0700, Mike Shepherd wrote: > Anyway, I realize the Debian Security list was probably not quite the right > forum to have posted this in, but it was the one I was receiving emails in, > so I figured what the heck. I don't think your personal convenience is a

Re: tcp syn flood and /proc configuration

2002-05-07 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:26:43PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello list, > > Is there anyone having any suggestion to tune the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* > to avoid tcp syn flood attack? there a kernel option "IP: TCP syncookie support" to do that you can activate it with : echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/

Re: tcp syn flood and /proc configuration

2002-05-07 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:45:32AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > But this option seems to bring some side-effect. Is there any > alternative? imho the better way is to use syncookie. problems written on the ip-sysctl documentation are more or less normal. there's not a very good way to know if

Re: CNAME, iptables and qmail

2002-05-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Gary MacDougall said: > Giacomo, > > How about an example!?! > > I'm a little surprise as to why you'd point out an exploit and > not tell people how to fix it... > > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Michal Melewski wrote: > > > Hello > > Try to add following lines into your fir

Re: tcp syn flood and /proc configuration

2002-05-07 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello Vincent Hanquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, But this option seems to bring some side-effect. Is there any alternative? tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket overflo

How create 2 server mod-ssl certificates

2002-05-07 Thread Manuel Segura
Hello, I am creating some server mod-ssl certificates using the script mod-ssl-makecert. If I understood, this script each time it is called, creates my ca certificate, and my server certificate. I suppose that my ca certificate should be the same for all my servers. What can i do to not hav

tcp syn flood and /proc configuration

2002-05-07 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, Is there anyone having any suggestion to tune the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* to avoid tcp syn flood attack? After reading Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt, I'd like to change tcp_syn_retries tcp_synack_retries both to "1", does it help? Any suggestion highly appreciated. -- Patri

Re: RE APT-GET Problems

2002-05-07 Thread Peter Cordes
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:54:09PM -0700, Mike Shepherd wrote: > Anyway, I realize the Debian Security list was probably not quite the right forum >to have posted this in, but it was the one I was receiving emails in, so I figured >what the heck. I don't think your personal convenience is a

RE: CNAME, iptables and qmail

2002-05-07 Thread Gary MacDougall
Giacomo, How about an example!?! I'm a little surprise as to why you'd point out an exploit and not tell people how to fix it... Thanks, Gary -Original Message- From: Giacomo Mulas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 3:48 AM To: Michal Melewski Cc: debian-security@list

Re: tcp syn flood and /proc configuration

2002-05-07 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:26:43PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello list, > > Is there anyone having any suggestion to tune the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* > to avoid tcp syn flood attack? there a kernel option "IP: TCP syncookie support" to do that you can activate it with : echo 1 > /proc/sys/net

Re: CNAME, iptables and qmail

2002-05-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Gary MacDougall said: > Giacomo, > > How about an example!?! > > I'm a little surprise as to why you'd point out an exploit and > not tell people how to fix it... > > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Michal Melewski wrote: > > > Hello > > Try to add following lines into your fi

How create 2 server mod-ssl certificates

2002-05-07 Thread Manuel Segura
Hello, I am creating some server mod-ssl certificates using the script mod-ssl-makecert. If I understood, this script each time it is called, creates my ca certificate, and my server certificate. I suppose that my ca certificate should be the same for all my servers. What can i do to not have

tcp syn flood and /proc configuration

2002-05-07 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, Is there anyone having any suggestion to tune the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* to avoid tcp syn flood attack? After reading Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt, I'd like to change tcp_syn_retries tcp_synack_retries both to "1", does it help? Any suggestion highly appreciated. -- Patr

RE: CNAME, iptables and qmail

2002-05-07 Thread Gary MacDougall
Giacomo, How about an example!?! I'm a little surprise as to why you'd point out an exploit and not tell people how to fix it... Thanks, Gary -Original Message- From: Giacomo Mulas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 3:48 AM To: Michal Melewski Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: CNAME, iptables and qmail

2002-05-07 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Michal Melewski wrote: > Hello > Try to add following lines into your firewall script: > iptables -A INPUT -p udp -i $DEV -s 0/0 --sport 53 -j ACCEPT > iptables -A INPUT -p udp -i $DEV -s 0/0 -j DROP > iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp -i $DEV -d 0/0 --dport 53 -j ACCEPT this opens a

Re: Putty 0.45 vs. SSH Login

2002-05-07 Thread Peter Cordes
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:52:21PM +0200, Tim van Erven wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:08:45PM +0200, "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > I disagree. By that reasoning it would be even better if OpenSSH > double-checked all of PAM's work. That would add bloat to ssh and > possib

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Re: CNAME, iptables and qmail

2002-05-07 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Michal Melewski wrote: > Hello > Try to add following lines into your firewall script: > iptables -A INPUT -p udp -i $DEV -s 0/0 --sport 53 -j ACCEPT > iptables -A INPUT -p udp -i $DEV -s 0/0 -j DROP > iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp -i $DEV -d 0/0 --dport 53 -j ACCEPT this opens a