On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:48:50PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > Why not? You've not given any reason at all. Do you know of any > malicious behavior that is made possible by leaving the services turned > on? The potential exists to use the chargen feature as a part of a DoS > attack, but I've not heard of it ever being used as it's not > particularly effective unless you have many many machines available, and > even then there are much more effective weapons. And what about the > rest of the ports? How are they dangerous? I've never heard of an > exploit involving any of them. play a spoofing trick to attach the victims chargen port to its echo port. i don't know if that is still possible, in the olden days it was, had quite ammusing result too. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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