> > 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. -- + alan@mid.net Network Operations Center (402)/472-0242, Fax (402)/472-0240 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +============\\ "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." + +MIDnet, Inc. \\____________________________ - Oscar Wilde +