RE: {bb} Ssh test passing when it should fail?

[Burton Windle <bwindle@fint.org>]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Burton Windle wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Reed L. O'Brien wrote:
>
> > While I am not positive I would assume BB checks if it can make a
> > connection.  It does make a tcp connection then the remote machine have a
> > socket error and resets the connection.  I am guessing that BB never tries
> > to log in, only SYN > ACK < and FIN/RST... So it makes a tcp connection and
> > disconnects before an error.
> >
> > ~r
>
> I think the SSH check does send some sort of data, or else you wouldn't find 
> the bb client string that it sends to the ssh daemon in the bb-network.sh 
> file.

(now talking to myself...)

Turn on SSH checking, and then check your logs..

Apr 13 23:14:34 balrog sshd[12026]: Bad protocol version identification
'Big-Brother-Monitor-1.8d4' from 10.5.100.96

At least with BB 1.8d4 (I know its old, but it works and I'm lazy), it
connects and sends the above string.


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Burton Windle                           bwindle@fint.org

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