I heard that UDP scanning Sun RPC ports caused Slowaris 8 to lock up so I tested it at home and it did not. But my testing was very shallow.
--- Scott Bolte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone else found that an nmap port scan can > lock up > inetd on a Solaris 8 box? > > I've gotten reports for a while that even safe > nessus scans > were causing problems with some Solaris boxes in a > data > center at work. I've been working with the admins > there > trying to identify which plugin was causing the > problem. > > Yesterday I tried two simple port scans, of just 20 > ports > mind you. One scan was for UDP (-sU) while the > other was > a stealth TCP scan (-sS). To my surprise, that was > enough > to cause a Solaris 8 system's inetd locked up for > telnet > and ftp access. > > Anyone else seen such things? > > Scott ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- Here's to the game called "Ten Toes" That's played all over town. The lassies play with ten toes up. And the lads with ten toes down! ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
