Fwd: Re: Got caught by Samba and Windows NT PDC
Leslie Bloom
i65 at ornl.gov
Wed Jan 20 15:11:28 GMT 1999
This happened to me -- when our PDC was down for upgrade my samba machine
took over as PDC. When the NT machine started up, there were major
conflicts and I had to take the samba machine down to remove it from the
network. There was probably a better solution but this was quick and easy.
>Dan Kaminsky wrote:
>>
>> >Yup. Better stop Samba first and then bring up the NT PDC.
>> >We (Luke and Paul Aston i think) found this out in the
>> >beginning. Kind of a nasty DoS attack from your internal
>> >network. ;)
>>
>> Does this qualify as a true DoS? Can a *remote* network generate the
>> necessary packets to break an already-activated PDC?
>
>No. Not really. But watch out for disgruntled emplyee
>on your subnet. Perhaps registering with the WINS server.
>But these are all internal things assuming you are behind
>a firewall.
Supposing a PDC is already up, can any machine with access to the local
subnet arbitararily crash that PDC by emulating another PDC? Firewalls
often mean your network is like candy--tough on the outside, but with a
sweet, gooey center.
How does NT react if it starts up and Samba is already doing its job?
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