[Bacula-devel] Scan kills Bacula

[Phil S. <al...@ca...>]

Kern,
I ran a security scan of my network with Nessus 2.0 last night, and the
scan killed Bacula stone dead.  The daemons were still all running, but
no scheduled jobs ran, and this morning the console could not
authenticate to the Director.  Since I doubt Nessus has any specific
attacks against bacula in its database yet, it's most lileky the nmap
scan that disabled Bacula.

It's probably important that we figure out why an nmap scan would have
this effect, because it makes for a trivially simple DoS attack against
Bacula.


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