My system is trying to access someone else's

["Patrick Kirk" <patrick@kirks.net>]

Hi all,

My ISP www.tele2.co.uk  provides a permanent IP number via a radio
connection that is always on.  Someone else on the same gateway has
complained to the ISP about my machine and produced this message...

"What looks like another Tele2 customer - 212.129.67.118 - is trying to
connect to my machine every ten seconds or so, and has been for
several days.  I am getting the following messages in my daemon.log
file:

Jul 20 23:55:14 cats portmap[18955]: connect from 212.19.67.118 to
callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host
Jul 20 23:55:22 cats portmap[18956]: connect from 212.19.67.118 to
callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host
Jul 20 23:55:32 cats portmap[18957]: connect from 212.19.67.118 to
callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host
Jul 20 23:56:47 cats portmap[18958]: connect from 212.19.67.118 to
callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host
Jul 20 23:56:59 cats portmap[18959]: connect from 212.19.67.118 to
callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host

The first message was logged on July 16th:"

This chap is rightly peeved.  But does anyone know why this is happening and
what I need to do to stop this?

Thanks in advance.


Patrick

Wise Chinese Proverb:  "If tired of computer winning at chess, try it at
kick-boxing instead"