[NTLUG:Discuss] what does this mean?

[Jay Urish]

Cool!!!
Thanks!

At 10:43 AM 3/9/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>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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Jay Urish
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