From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2853>; Tue, 1 Dec 1992 02:26:29 -0500 To: rc Subject: anonymous ftp from archone.tamu.edu Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 02:26:23 -0500 From: Chris Siebenmann Message-Id: <92Dec1.022629est.2853@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu> I asked the system administrator of archone.tamu.edu about this, and here's his reply. - cks ------- Forwarded Message From: Steve Rikli To: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: what happened to anonymous ftp to archone.tamu.edu? archone.tamu.edu is still in the anonymous ftp business, but tamu.edu is being unfriendly. The Computing Services Center (i.e. main campus computing beaurocracy) at Texas A&M was attacked by crackers near the end of August. According to their reports, the crackers were able to get into computers all over campus (interestingly enough, they did not get into archone or any of my other systems). The response to this attack was to set up a packet filter at the main campus routers--all incoming ftp, rsh, rlogin, telnet is being filtered and turned away from non-tamu.edu sites, except for a select few campus computers. At the beginning of November, the CSC made available a series of scripts and routines (basically Cops, but more paranoid and tailored to look for signs of this recent attack) which any site admin on campus can run on his/her computers, and if they pass, these computers will be allowed free access to/from the outside world again. archone.tamu.edu has passed most of these tests (all save one, actually) but the last is somthing of a matter of opinion. I don't particularly care for it, but I suppose I will end up doing it, just because my net access depends on it. This has been more than a little bit of an inconvenience for me--I provide several things anonymously via ftp, not the least of which is Byron's rc, and my "customers" are unhappy. I don't blame them. Once I "fix" the last of the CSC's criteria, I assume it will take a couple weeks for archone to be unhindered again, so I am hoping for sometime before the end of December. Sorry for the inconvenience, but please bear with me--things won't always be like this. cheers, sr. - ------- || Steve Rikli ||| Visualization Lab || || steve@archone.tamu.edu ||| Texas A&M University || || 409-845-3465 ||| College Station, TX 77843-3137 || ------- End of Forwarded Message