Re: Instability in kernel version 2.6.12.5

[Romano Giannetti]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 01:30:27PM -0400, Justin R. Smith wrote:
> 
> Examining the system logs disclosed that someone attempted to hack my 
> system at 2331 (the time the clock was frozen at) by trying to initiate 
> about 200 ssh connections with randomly generated user ids over a very 
> short time (a few seconds).
> 

Probably not the casue. It happens quite often here (followed by me doing a
iptable blocking on the IP and sending a reclamation to the preovider, with
no answer unfortunately) and I never saw problems like the one you describe. 

Version is Linux 2.6.11-12mdkcustom, but it happened with vanilla kernel(s)
too, same behavior here. 

HTH,
    Romano


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