Re: finger-bombing
Alan Hannan (alan@mid.net)
Thu, 13 Oct 1994 14:59:15 -0500 (CDT)
>
> On Wed, 12 Oct 1994, Christopher Klaus wrote:
> > Contact the admins of those hosts and tell them to have it stopped.
> > Also, modify inetd.conf and comment out finger and kill -HUP inetd
> > to restart it.
>
> A question which is not really relvant to this mailing-list..What if the
> admin is the one who is guilty of such attack? (attack here refers to
> more general case than just fingering) Who do i inform or do i have to
> deal it myself? :-)
>
I'd recommend dealing with it yourself, but if you haven't the chutzpah,
even admins have admins. Look at the offending party's domain, do a whois
on that domain, and narq to the domain admin.
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