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RE: [cobalt-security] Lame Server Messages & Webalizer 2.01
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-security] Lame Server Messages & Webalizer 2.01
- From: Graeme Fowler <graeme.fowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:09:23 +0100
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
Chae wrote:
> We also see every day a sporadic burst of lame server messages in the logs
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> every day without fail at the same time - 1000's of them...I have compared
> this with other log files including the mail logs and none of them show
> anything specific - nothing to tie in with this daily event. We also have
> Webalizer 2.01 on the machine...could be the problem - don't know
*Anything* which causes your DNS server to generate thousands of queries
will end up logging lots of errors if they exist.
Sorry to be list cop for a minute, but can we chop these threads? It's not a
security issue and is better discussed privately, if at all. Lame servers
are a problem, just not a security problem.
Graeme (wearing pointy hat)