[98112] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Strange messages in /var/log/messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chad W. Skinner)
Fri Nov 6 16:31:23 1998
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 15:30:56 -0600
From: "Chad W. Skinner" <chadws@networksplus.net>
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If I am reading this correctly whois
(http://whois.arin.net/whois/arinwhois.html) is saying the IP address
(140.158.246.1 ) is allocated to the University you work for (Netname:
LAMAR-NET, Netnumber: 140.158.0.0) you might try the other IT departments
there.
The Coordinator as listed is: Gail Freeman - freeman@hal.lamar.edu
You might try contacting her for information about what computer and
services are running through this IP.
I don't know much about unix, or networking for that matter, but I thought I
would try to find the machine causing your problem, unfortunately it does
not appear to have a DNS entry.
>I have finally had enough. I keep getting these messages spaced at
>about 1 min intervals in /var/log/messages. These cause the file to
>grow quite large. Would somebody please help me figure out what they
>are and how I might stop them from being recorded. I really haven't
>worried about them before now, because I didn't feel them to be a
>security problem, just a nuisance. Correct me please if I'm wrong.
...
>Nov 6 13:59:21 tabasco portmap[8705]: connect from 140.158.246.1 to
callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host
...
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