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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : justin@sprawl.com.au
  Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 00:01:37 +1030

Re: UDP port 752 does what?

Justin,

It occurs to me that maybe SuSE decided to
use port 752 for UDP NFS to foil the attempts of
people who think it might be on 653.
But attackers go to sunrpc all the time
anyway. So I've firewalled that one too.

In case you or anyone else might be interested
in this rather vicious probing of my ports
that the script kiddies did (including the
752 UDP port thing), I've put my report at

http://www.topology.org/attacks/tigh1.html

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.


PS.  Something really wierd happened when I tried
"lsof" on my two redhat 5.2 machines.
One of them had source patches and specs
only (maybe because I didn't load all the stuff
in from the CDs), but the other RH 5.2 system did this

===============================================
rat:root#> lsof -i udp:752
lsof: WARNING: compiled for Linux release 2.0.34; this is 2.0.36.
lsof: kernel symbol address mismatch: get_options
      get_kernel_syms() value is 0x108ce0; /System.map value is 0x108a90.
      There were 354 additional mismatches.
      /System.map and the booted kernel may not be a matched set.
rat:root#> 
===============================================

Wierd, n'est-ce pas?
Does anyone else get this with RH 5.2?
The SuSE 6.2 "lsof" works fine.

PPS. Wouldn't it be great if we had a referendum
on the censorship bill and the GST.
What would be the chances?
And how many contractors out there have already
worked out that the GST is going to kill contracting?
The ATO told me that contracting overseas is GST-free!

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   name: Dr. Alan Kennington
 e-mail: akenning@dog.topology.org
website: http://topology.org/
   city: Adelaide, South Australia
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saying1: `The Internet is the parliament of the people.' ak 28/5/1999.
saying2: `Seek truth from facts.' mao or deng, 1970s?
saying3: `Let a 1000 flowers bloom, let a 1000 schools contend.' mao, 1970s?
saying4: `Cut down the tall poppies.' mao, a few months later.

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