Hi I found the thread below on google when searching for the hostname detective issue. I appreciate this was raised in June 2004, but there doesnt appear to be many more instances of this issue on the net. Question is did you find out what caused it? I have it on my network and Id like to know how to prevent reoccurrence.
Thanks Mark Skimming through my leases file I noticed a bogus MAC address of 45:3b:13:0d:89:0a as well as two others which used the hostname "detective" and leased all of the available IP addresses in my pool for two minutes. I googled for this situation and found a published log from some college's dhcp.leases file with the same MAC address and hostname being used. Has anyone else seen this behavior before? The only interface serving DHCP is my internal one with only two machines on it. Almost sounds like one of them got hacked. Does anyone know what virus/spyware would've caused this? Thanks Tim ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
