Re: scan

[nathan <nathan@sdf.lonestar.org>]

It would be serious, if it were actually the case that the server,
properly configured, was rebooting due to a remote scan.  However, Occam's
Razor would suggest that since one of the primary goals of server design
is reliability and a port scan (even one as thourough as a complete nmap
scan) is a fairly innocuous event, that the cause is not a bug, or at
least not unintentional.

I would very carefully go over your hardware setup, and the configuration
of the server.  I would run the offending scan many times, altering
different things to try and determine some predictable behaviors, and I
would go over the server logs to see if the reason for the reboot was
logged.

Cheers,

nate


> This is serious, whether or not the -O options was used is
> not so relevant; it certainly should not cause the machine
> to reboot.