On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:52:03PM +0100, JCS wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I repost this message as no reply has yet arrived.
> There is nobody having the same problem?
No, I've never seen anything like this.
What it looks like to me, reading these logs closely and applying
some imagination, is that you have a client at xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt running
some kind of script which is "looping back" or echoing all responses
from popper back into popper. Look at the sequence of commands here,
as logged by popper itself:
popper:
-ERR Too many arguments supplied.
popper:
-ERR Unknown command: "-err"
A little imagination for some of the problems that can occur with
computers suggests that the other side of the dialog may look like
this:
client:
(unknown initial command ???)
popper:
-ERR Too many arguments supplied.
client:
-ERR Too many arguments supplied.
popper:
-ERR Unknown command: "-err"
client:
-ERR Unknown command: "-err"
popper:
-ERR Unknown command: "-err"
etc.
You could see that if, for instance, somebody on that IP was running
a miscoded Perl script or shell or netcat script to connect to popper,
or if they had a misconfigured proxy server being used to connect, or
something of that kind.
I would look very closely into what is running on the specific
clients connecting from the affected IPs. That's my best guess for
you.
-- Clifton
--
Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect
"I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green
And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide,
And I'm gonna tell my son to keep his money in his mattress
And his watch on any hand between his thighs,
And I'm gonna lock my son up in a tower
Till I write my whole life story on the back of his big brown eyes..."
-- 'Whip-Smart', Liz Phair
