rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat

[Dave [Hawk-Systems]]

>On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 02:37:36PM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote:
>> I received an answer to this before and it was that FreeBSD isn't
>vulnerable to
>> this type of attack, but the log entries persist in varrying degrees of
>> reoccurance.
>
>This is a FAQ.  It's an attempt to exploit an old Linux vulnerability.

thanks,  this I did know.  However searching the FreeBSD FAQ I didn't find any
reference to my two questions;

1) Is there a way to tell where it is coming from?

2) What is the intended result?

Thanks

Dave