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Re: what does this mean?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Thu Nov 5 10:43:16 1998

Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 22:30:38 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Matt Kaminer wrote:

> fred kernel: ICMP redirect from 204.168.121.1

Name:    icarus.syrres.com
Address:  204.168.121.1

It could be someone on Icarus is pinging you,
to see if you are an easy target for a break-in.

Be sure you have the updates installed, and read up
on security.

>
>
> I get this ALL the time in my messages file... is it bad?
>
> -mak
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