[NTLUG:Discuss] SWBell DSL

[Bug Hunter]

  	DANGER! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!  <sorry, couldn't help it>

  Seriously,  go to the redhat update site and apply all the redhat 5.2
updates.  Here is a list (from memory) of the problems you have in that
redhat 5.2 box, unless updates have been applied:

  1.  sendmail allows spamming even when allow relaying is turned off
  2.  lpd has an exploit
  3.  your ftp server daemon has exploits
  4.  bind has a buffer overflow exploit where someone can run arbitrary
	commands.  This bit me.
  5.  telnet (? I'm not sure) has a race condition exploit
...etc

  Best would be to upgrade to redhat 6.2.

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On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, George E. Lass wrote:

> 
> I helped a friend get his RedHat 5.2 box set up on SW Bell's
> DSL service just last week.  When he was making the arrangements
> with them, they told him several times that the installer 
> *would* be able to set it up on a Linux box. Needless to say,
> they were lying thru their teeth!  The installer had a Kingston
> KNE30 NIC and a Windoze/Mac driver install disk.  Once the
> installer got the DLS "modem" to sync up, my friend told the
> guy to leave!