[plug] nasty spammer

[Bret Busby]

On 27 Mar 2002, Bill Kenworthy wrote:

> Date: 27 Mar 2002 17:46:17 +0800
> From: Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: Plug List <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Subject: RE: [plug] nasty spammer
> Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:44:04 +0800 (WST)
> Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 
> man chkconfig Brett.  named does your dns and the on/off is the
> runlevels that it is set to work in.  "ps -aux|grep named" is probably
> the easiest to find out if its running.
> 
> BillK
> 
> 

Okay.

ps -aux | grep named shows it to be running.

What now?

What are the consequences?

Should it be running, on a dialup/gateway/mailserver/firewall box?

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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