I made one small adjustment to the iptables rule that Don suggested
because several messages were still being written to std-error
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -s 127.0.0.0/8 -i eth0 -j DROP
I also added
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s 0.0.0.0 -i eth0 -j DROP
After being ineffect for abou
Thanks for the help. I've implemented your suggestion.
-- Brandon
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Donald J Bindner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:29:43PM -0600, Brandon Chisham wrote:
> > Oct 28 02:26:29 mh333001 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 127.0.0.1, on
>dev eth0
>
> You shouldn't
I found this thread
(http://www.oclug.on.ca/pipermail/oclug/2001-May/thread.html#6047)
during the course of my googling. It indicates a method of suppressing
the messages, but suppressing the messages seems to be just treating the
symptoms and ignoring the cause.
--Brandon
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:29:43PM -0600, Brandon Chisham wrote:
> Oct 28 02:26:29 mh333001 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 127.0.0.1, on
>dev eth0
You shouldn't be accepting any packets on eth0 from 127.x.x.x.
If you use iptables, you might include the next rule in your
firewall.
I started getting an error abount martian packets yesterday, so I ckecked
my logs and noticed that a lot had been coming in the last couple of
days, but not before. that. I haven't found much useful information on
google yet. I'm still looking, so hopefully I will find something soon. I
haven'
> ITS uses WINS to handle DNS entries
Snip stuff about samba ...
> Once those lines are in there restart samba. I think you would type
> "/etc/init.d/smb restart" in RedHat. You should now have a DNS entry.
Everything Peter said is correct, with one augmentation: it can take
up to 5 minutes before
ITS uses WINS to handle DNS entries, consequently you need samba running
and properly configured to do this. Ensure that you have these lines in
your smb.conf under the [global] section (I have no clue where that is
in RedHat but both Gentoo and Debian store it in /etc/samba/smb.conf):
wins server
Hello Everyone,
I finally got around to building my dedicated Linux box. I
installed Redhat 8.0 on it 2-3 days ago. I have been playing around
with it and slowly learning how to use it. However, I must admit, I am
still entirely a noob. I have gotten some gaming servers running
