From: John Horne (J.Horne@plymouth.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 04:31:21 EDT
Hello,
We have previously only run syslog locally on the Sun systems - i.e. a local
syslog only received local messages. However, we now want one system to
receive syslog messages from other systems within the University. No problem
since the Suns will do this - the 't/-T' switches. However, how can I secure
the syslog process to only receive messages within the University's subnet?
What is to prevent someone from simply sending loads of syslog messages to a
system and potentially creating a DoS. Not sure that would happen (the DoS),
but it seems possible. What I would like to do, in effect, put TCP wrappers
around syslog as we do with other services.
Anyone any ideas about this? This will be on a Sun Ultra 10 with Solaris 9.
Regards,
John.
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