SML108@psuvm.psu.edu (02/20/90)
Hi, recently a strange event occurred. A Sun workstation in the astronomy dept. here sent out a message to request a remote boot. Our Iris 4D/220 picked up that message and attempted to provide a remote boot to this workstation. This happened repetitively until I disabled this ability in the /etc/services file of the IRIS. Novice that I am, I am asking the wizards WHY did this happen? Scott Le Grand aka sml108@psuvm.psu.edu
emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (02/21/90)
(IRIS answers Sun's boot plea.)
This came up on sun-nets, you can get some debugging help
with this program (it was noted in comp.archives):
Archive-name: bootparams/13-Feb-90
Original-posting-by: Patrik F{ltstr|m <paf@nada.kth.se>
Original-subject: Re: Booting diskless clients
Archive-site: ftp.kth.se [130.237.72.201]
Archive-directory: pub/misc
Archive-files: bootparams.shar
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
A program the simulates a clients scream for help, callbootd, written
by Klas Heggemann <klas@nada.kth.se>, can be fetched by
anonymous ftp at ftp.kth.se <130.237.72.201> in the shell archive
pub/misc/bootparams.shar.
When running callbootd with the clients adress etc as argument you
can see ALL servers that responds to that call. Both the nice guys and,
thats the point, the bad ones.
Patrik Faeltstroem <paf@nada.kth.se>