From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266486AbUBGGXs (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 01:23:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266487AbUBGGXs (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 01:23:48 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net ([204.127.202.56]:17810 "EHLO sccrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266486AbUBGGXr (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 01:23:47 -0500 Message-ID: <40248559.60900@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 00:27:37 -0600 From: Karl Tatgenhorst User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: Charles Cazabon , Linux kernel Subject: Re: FATAL: Kernel too old References: <20040206152943.B26348@discworld.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > >Sure. And if you can 'root' that machine, you are really >good! It isn't even visible to most of the company internally! > > >Cheers, >Dick Johnson > Not a big contributor here, but the first thing I thought when I saw the message was root kit. Granted you may have to be 'good' to root the box, or to know that it is present in the corp network. However, you did say it is forwarding mail which means it receives mail, thus it has an identifiable and locatable IP address. Also, it was stated that it was a generic RH running 2.4.18 (I think) and no hacking done to it. Is it kept up to date, current libraries etc... From what you said it sounds like a rarely thought of recipient of internet services (e-mail) or what some like to call "a target of opportunity" Karl Tatgenhorst