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Subject: Re: Possible Security Threat?
From: Noam Rathaus <dolittle @ israelmail . com>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 19:13:55 +0200
To: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <199709081322 . PAA09752 @ fw4 . tns . co . za>

Billy Verreynne wrote:
> 
> > Noam Rathaus <dolittle @
 israelmail .
 com> wrote:
> > I would like to know if anyone heard of a hacker trying to mimic
> > a Windows NT Server's Master Browser and thus creating a huge upsurge
> > in forced elections?
> 
> I doubt that this is a hacker attempt as the only thing they can achieve is
> filling up your event log...
> 
> The event log should specify which client is causing the NT server to do
> forced elections. I've also find that the culprit is usually either a badly
> configured client (who believes it is the master browser), or a conflict
> with another NT server on the same domain (but a domain sync should fix
> that).
> 
> regards,
> Billy
When I said mimicing I mean successeding in doing so, and thus
gaining some sort of information having to travel trough him.

-- 
Thanks
Noam Rathaus
NT / Exchange / Network Administrator.
Certified CNA - Site Builder Network 2
Israel
mailto://dolittle @
 israelmail .
 com
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