Re: Why me?!
Jeffrey J. Mountin (sysop@mixcom.com)
Wed, 02 Apr 1997 20:09:47 -0600
At 11:51 AM 3/30/97 -0600, Jake (not the snake) Messinger wrote:
>On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
>> nac-nyc2> sho ses
>> Port User Host/Inet/Dest Type Dir Status Start
>> Idle
>> ---- --------------- ---------------- ------- --- ------------- ------
>> S0 - - Login In USERNAME 0
>> S1 gfkiller nac-nyc2-s7-115k Netwrk In ESTABLISHED 0
>> S2 zorak 207.99.0.18 Netwrk In ESTABLISHED 2:55
>> S3 meir - Netwrk In IDLE 0
>> S4 yoonshim - Netwrk In CONNECTING 0
>> S5 eunhok - Netwrk In CONNECTING 0
>> S6 panic 207.99.6.14 Netwrk In ESTABLISHED 43
>
>Excuse me for saying so, but what sort of service do you run? gfkiller?
>Zorak? eunhok? heh... lemme guess, its a quake server?
>
>> How can someone be on an idle port (s3?)
>
>Uh that IS strange. But ive seen it too. I guess its stale data.
What is really odd is that there is a timeout on the login and is one of
the session termination reasons:
Login Timeout
The login:, password: or host: prompt is set to timeout after five
minutes with no input and has done so.
I've never seen one go for ever and would received mail if it did.
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Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator
jeff@mixcom.net
MIX Communications
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