This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: What is this System? Help!
Article: 8437 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: hedley@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk (David Hedley) Subject: Re: What is this System? Help! Message-ID: DDAx8x.3JD@uns.bris.ac.uk Sender: usenet@uns.bris.ac.uk (Usenet news owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk Reply-To: David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Bristol, England X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 12:55:44 GMT Approved: David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk Lines: 44 Status: RO
Jonathan Bodarky (jbodarky@leia.ursinus.edu) wrote: : I Need some help... today, while running an NSLOOKUP on my domain name, I : found something I didn't recognize... I pinged it, got 0ms turnaround. : FTP is shut out. Here is the results of a finger and a attempted telnet: : >>> : >>> : >>>finger @ursprep : Line User Host( Idle Location : * 2 vty 0 idl 0 ACAD.URSINUS.EDU : >>>telnet ursprep : Trying... Connected to URSPREP.URSINUS.EDU. : User Access Verification : Password: : Password: : % Bad passwords : Connection closed by Foreign host : What is this????? Any Clues??? : ACAD is our main machine. Looks like you've just telnetted to your local CISCO router. ho hum ObHack: I was getting bored of waiting for my source code to recompile on one Sun, so I hacked the Makefile to use a combination of rup and rsh to distribute the compile to all machines it could find on the local network, using proper load balancing etc. The result being enormous amounts NFS traffic, two pissed off network administrators, but excellent compile times! David -- David Hedley (David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk) http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~hedley/ finger hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk for PGP key Computer Graphics Group | University of Bristol | UK *** All opinions expressed are mine and mine alone ***
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