As an ISP, we have seen attacks everyday.
We block sunrpc services at the gateway. And our servers all use
TCPwrapper. We have not been compromised yet(?) for almost 3
years now.
Bao
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Bob wrote:
> A friend of mine (in New Hampshire) is seeing a lot of cracker portmap
> attacks. Unless you have need of it, you may want to turn off nfsd, mountd,
> and portmap on your Linux & UNIX boxes or use TCP Wrappers.
>
> Bob Toxen
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