From: Jan-Frode Myklebust (janfrode@PARALLAB.UIB.NO)
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 14:54:51 EDT
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:27:11PM -0400, Paul LaMadeleine wrote:
> We have started seeing a bunch of these in our
> /var/adm/console.log file on a bunch of our servers. Anyone have any idea
> what could be causing this? We do know that our F5 load balancer is
> testing the telnet port, so it's not a breakin attempt.
AFAIK these are caused by something connecting to your telnet-port, and
then quickly exits before telnetd has been able to do its initial
startup. It's typically caused by portscanners, but I guess your load
balancer might be doing the same thing.
-jf
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