Summary: Many people snmpwalking your border routers lately? SNMPc from CastleRock Computing may be to blame; they responded promptly and responsibly to my complaint - jc John Sancho wrote: > I apologize for the inconvenience caused by our discovery mechanism. We are > currently in the process of changing the installation mechanism to ensure > that users have control over the process before the initial startup. This > new implementation will be in our next update within a few weeks. > > I am not sure how we can post to "bugtraq". Can you give me some more info > about that ? Or perhaps you could post my message to buqtraq on our behalf. > > regards - john > > John J. Sancho > johnat_private > > > In the past 3 weeks, at least 4 users of your product were contacted by > > me because I found them trying to snmpwalk my border router. In each > > case they blamed your software for scanning the Internet before filters > > could be applied. This will be construed as an attack by many > > security-conscious network administrators. Please post to bugtraq (a > > mailing list for security issues) a description of what SNMPc does and > > what you are going to do to fix this errant behavior. -- John Comeau - Chief Operating Officer Dialtone Internet - Extremely Fast Web Systems 954-581-0097 fax://954-581-7629 jcomeauat_private http://www.dialtoneinternet.net
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