Re: Newbie and scan attack

to the best of my knowledge the services you mentioned are almost all passive. even those like htdig shouldn't generate this sort of behaviour. there are many others which could : nmap, amap, pnscan to name a few - Original Message - From: "DSC Siltec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thurs

firewall / ipchains ?

.   I don't know firewalls at all - i think i need to use ipchains ? Any pointers to documentation more for beginners than the man page ?   Thanks in advance,   afj 

nfs problems

hi all, I've been getting this message in syslog every few minutes for a few weeks now : myserver rpc.statd[10595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from myserver for anotherserver (which is an nfs client for myserver) I did some search and saw that it could be a mode problem for /var/lib/nfs/s