Re: problem with SNMPc

[jcomeau () DIALTONEINTERNET NET (John Comeau)]

Summary: Many people snmpwalking your border routers lately? SNMPc from
CastleRock Computing may be to blame; they responded promptly and
responsibly to my complaint - jc

John Sancho wrote:
> I apologize for the inconvenience caused by our discovery mechanism.  We are
> currently in the process of changing the installation mechanism to ensure
> that users have control over the process before the initial startup.  This
> new implementation will be in our next update within a few weeks.
>
> I am not sure how we can post to "bugtraq".  Can you give me some more info
> about that ?  Or perhaps you could post my message to buqtraq on our behalf.
>
> regards - john
>
> John J. Sancho
> john () castlerock com
>
> > In the past 3 weeks, at least 4 users of your product were contacted by
> > me because I found them trying to snmpwalk my border router. In each
> > case they blamed your software for scanning the Internet before filters
> > could be applied. This will be construed as an attack by many
> > security-conscious network administrators. Please post to bugtraq (a
> > mailing list for security issues) a description of what SNMPc does and
> > what you are going to do to fix this errant behavior.

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John Comeau - Chief Operating Officer
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