Re: ipfilter problems on overloaded Solaris 9

Jefferson Ogata <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.ipfilter
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2008-08-04 20:49, Rugen, Len wrote:
> I have a strange situation….  I had a Solaris 9 system crash today.  The 
> ipfilter rules hadn’t been changed since July 21.  At boot, the proper 
> people could connect via ssh and Oracle ports.  After they started 
> piling on more Oracle, connections started being refused.  Stopping 
> ipfilter “cured” the problem. 
> 
> Ipfilter 4.1.29, solaris 9 @ 122300-28
> 
> Any ideas? 

Are you using any hostnames in your configuration? Is it possible that 
they no longer resolve? or that you had a transient DNS problem?

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Jefferson Ogata <[email protected]>
NOAA Computer Incident Response Team (N-CIRT) <[email protected]>
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