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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!ccvax.ucd.ie!njconway
- From: njconway@ccvax.ucd.ie
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: inetd logging misleading
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.104855.49485@ccvax.ucd.ie>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 10:48:55 GMT
- References: <NEAL.92Aug12083448@neal.ctd.comsat.com>
- Organization: University College Dublin
- Lines: 18
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- In article <NEAL.92Aug12083448@neal.ctd.comsat.com>, neal@neal.ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker) writes:
- > I have found inetd -l very valuable in tracking down problems, till
- > now! If you do tftp to a broadcast address, inetd logs it as if the
- > source address is actually the local host! That is, if host A
- > broadcasts, then on host B it says connection from host B!
- >
- > I haven't tried to see if this is true of other protocols (probably
- > is).
-
- Yeah - on our 710 under 8.07, I just noticed the other day that rlogin does
- the same thing...
-
- 'who -u' gives the local host as the source...
-
- Neil
- njconway@ccvax.ucd.ie
- neil@nebula.ucd.ie
-
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