[SLUG] Interesting problem

[Phil Kershaw]

Hi All,

I thought I'd share this little problem with you in case it catches
anyone else.
I have a small network at home with iptables and portsentry running on
my Linux gateway, connected to braodband. In addition to my Linux
workstations I have a couple of windows XP machines. My daughters
machine needed upgrading to service pack 2, so with a couple of hours to
spare I thought I would do it. All seemed to go well until I tried to
connect to the network again. 

I could not connect to samba or the internet. I could ping my other xp
workstation but not my Linux server. After a lot of messing about and
hurling abuse at windows I checked the logs on my Linux server.
Portsentry had reported an attack alert and dropped the offending ip.
The offending ip was the XP machine I had just put service pack 2 on!
The windows upgrade must have scanned the network and as far as
portsentry was concerned I was being attacked. 

Ha-Ho you live and learn :-)

Regards 

Phil


-----Original Message-----
From: scarborough-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:scarborough-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Worthington
Sent: 06 December 2004 23:37
To: Scarborough Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Another installation question


<john at johnallsopp.co.uk> wrote:
> I want to download the Java development kit which is supplied as a 
> file la-de-da-rpm.bin.
>
> How do I install that?
>
> It's an rpm, but it's a bin. What's that?
>
Maybe a binary?  Try executing it (make sure it has the execute bit
set), 
e.g.

./la-de-da-rpm.bin

Any joy?

Jonathan 

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