VanLUG Email Archive
Curt Sampson (cjs@portal.ca)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:08:30 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> On 20 Oct 98, at 14:27, Curt Sampson wrote:
>
> > Seems like more work to me than just poking a hole in your firewall,
> > starting xntpd on boot, and forgetting about the whole thing.
>
> Is that wise? Are there no known exploits? Seems a tad "crazy" if you ask
> me? I've only been using linux for less that a year, but I'd say I've gotten
> _sufficently _ paranoid by reading Bugtraq, Anti-Online, Rootshell etc. Not
> to mention the fact that I have friends who manage some major sites who
> been attacked, in one case they were effectivley shut down (including all
> the isp's thousands of clients) for over a week due to a major synflood
> attack.
Well, you don't have to enable incoming connections through that
port. I certainly wouldn't. :-)
cjs
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