They may have initially rooted you using a well-known exploit in BIND. If you're not running 8.2.2 patchlevel 3 or better (current is patchlevel 5) you are very definitely vulnerable. This might explain the "damage" done to BIND. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 17:29 To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: violated below is a message I sent to abuse@rogers.home.com I post it in case anyone has comment - I note that once this person finished their playing, the shell was damaged and I couldn't use emacs or any normal editor...bind was toasted. I suppose you can whip me for not stopping telnet services but I hope we can get beyond that. Craig > would like to see you stop this person > IP Address... 24.113.4.113 > > This person entered unauthorized - damaged the shells on at least > 2 computers that I administrate, destroyed the BIND process and I > may not be smart enough to figure whatever else they did so I > have stopped telnet services and have rebuilt the systems. > > > syslog entries on barney.azapple.com (24.221.62.42 -7GMT) > ------------------------------------ > Mar 26 04:19:39 barney in.telnetd[2022]: connect from 24.113.4.113 > Mar 26 04:19:56 barney login: LOGIN ON 0 BY hc FROM > cr872028-a.poco1.bc.wave.home.com > Mar 26 04:21:59 barney pam_console[2023]: getpwnam failed for hc > > securelog entries on barney.azapple.com > --------------------------------------- > Mar 26 04:19:39 barney in.telnetd[2022]: connect from 24.113.4.113 > Mar 26 04:19:56 barney login: LOGIN ON 0 BY hc FROM > cr872028-a.poco1.bc.wave.home.com > Mar 26 04:21:59 barney pam_console[2023]: getpwnam failed for hc > > > syslog entries on mail.despinsprinting.com (24.221.16.195 -7GMT) > ------------------------------------------ > Mar 26 16:00:20 mail named[533]: Lame server on > 'lsolss.larenco.com' (in 'LARENCO.com'?): [24.221.30.3].53 > Mar 26 16:00:28 mail named[533]: Lame server on > 'lsolss.larenco.com' (in 'LARENCO.com'?): [204.210.2.110].53 > 'VNS1.RRSAN.com' > Mar 26 16:01:38 mail PAM_pwdb[3098]: (login) session opened for > user hc by (uid=0) > Mar 26 16:02:04 mail PAM_pwdb[3110]: (su) session opened for user > hantu by hc(uid=758) > > securelog entries on mail.despinsprinting.com > --------------------------------------------- > Mar 26 16:01:29 mail in.telnetd[3096]: connect from 24.113.4.113 > Mar 26 16:01:38 mail login: LOGIN ON 0 BY hc FROM > cr872028-a.poco1.bc.wave.home.com > Mar 26 16:08:07 mail ipop3d[3149]: connect from 192.168.1.52 > Mar 26 16:08:56 mail pam_console[3098]: getpwnam failed for hc > _______________________________________________ Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss