F9 DOS?

[Fred Silsbee]

--- On Mon, 11/24/08, Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: F9 DOS?
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 6:56 PM
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:23:06PM -0500, Kevin J. Cummings
> wrote:
> > Dave Feustel wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:20:33AM -0500, Dave
> Feustel wrote:
> >>> F9 Boot up this morning took forever. The
> system seemed to be stuck on starting
> >>> up sendmail. How to get around startups of
> services when startup hangs?
> >
> > sendmail hanging at startup is usually a DNS problem
> as requests are  
> > timing out....
> >
> >>> Also, My firewall is showing massive udp
> packets with state 1:0 from a single ip address
> >>> and I cannot ping to anything but my network
> ip address. Is this a sign of a DOS?
> >>> Everything was working great when I shutdown
> last night.
> >
> > Not necessarily, it could just be that Comcast was
> screwed up for a  
> > while.  They do use human being to maintain their
> network, and human  
> > beings are known to make misteaks from time to
> time....
> >
> >>> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Well, around 1215 I booted up F9 and now
> everything is working normally.
> >> I have no idea what the problem was earlier unless
> Comcast was down.
> >
> > Either its was Comcast, or the DOS stopped.  (yeah, I
> know, not too useful!)
> 
> Thanks anyways. Every bit of info about how to deal with
> DOS and
> exploits is appreciated. Book references or URLs are also
> welcom.
> 
> -- 

I had that problem until I went to services and disabled sendmail

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