> Today we were using nmap to scan our network and when we scanned our > Tru64 machines, telnet and ftp froze and timed out. We could not make > any connections to those ports and existing connections froze. New > connections were denied for about a minute after the scan was finished. > I've checked with Compaq and on Securityfocus and neither place has any > knowledge of this. [...] > nmap -T Polite -O -p 23,139 -oM /tmp/lst 'xxx.xxx.16-44.*' Why does this sound so familiar? Would this not be an issue with inetd? Sounds like it .... I believe it's why D. J. Bernstein wrote tcpserver. See: http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html Cheers, ellipse
