[NTLUG:Discuss] what does this mean?

[Steve Egbert]

It would appear that that remote guy had installed a non-standard IDENT
protocol handler.  He may be trying to connect with you (via IRC, sendmail
or anything that needs IDENT) and your box requested IDENT info, he replies
with a non-standard line format.

Whether it was purposeful or not, you'll have to ask him (somehow).

Check the source code at
http://www.redhat.com/swr/src/xinetd-2.1.8.9pre11-1.src_dl.html and check
the xinetd/indent.c source file for verify_line() function.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Urish [mailto:j at yourlinuxguru.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:12 AM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] what does this mean?
> 
> 
> Hey guys,
> ever since I put mandrake 7.2 on a mailserver I have been 
> getting this in 
> the logs
> 
> 
> --
> Mar 8 14:26:49 slim xinetd[1878]: Bad line received from 
> identity server at 
> 65.65.122.57: 63648
> Mar 8 14:27:53 slim xinetd[1879]: Bad line received from 
> identity server at 
> 65.65.122.57: 63650
> Mar 8 14:27:58 slim xinetd[1880]: Bad line received from 
> identity server at 
> 65.65.122.57: 63651
> Mar 8 14:29:02 slim xinetd[1881]: Bad line received from 
> identity server at 
> 65.65.122.57: 63653
> 
> --
> Any ideas what is causing this?
> 
> 
> Jay Urish
> Your Linux Guru.
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