Re: Openbsd 3.2 wtmp delay and named backdoor

From: Jose Nazario <jose(at)monkey.org>
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 21:17:06 EST

the wtmp delay appears to be caused by dns lookups. some testing at home produced the same delay, looking at the traffic showed it was trying to resolve an internal hostname.

i agree with eric that the named syslog mechanism could go with a healthy dose of paranoia and use a non-root syslog user. note that syslogd can be systraced quite nicely, as well.

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jose nazario, ph.d.			jose@monkey.org
					
http://www.monkey.org/~jose/

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