Confusing Log message
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri May 7 22:28:10 UTC 2004
In article <c7gl9i$1tlj$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
"Michael Barber" <mikeb at comcity.com> wrote:
> An LDAP Query? Why is Bind responding to an LDAP Query...I thought that was
> what LDAP servers were for? I'm obviously confused but this looks like a
> security problem and a hacker is trying to exploit something. The Hacker
> obviously knows something I don't...that he can get my bind server to
> respond to LDAP queries if he tries hard enough....
It's not responding to an LDAP query. It's responding to a DNS query
that's being used to look up the local LDAP server, or something like
that.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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