On 6/4/07, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:
I can give you the root password to a Linux machine running telnetd and sshd. If it's behind NAT/PAT, you will not get into it. Period.
Just because it's behind NAT, does not mean it's unreahcable from the internet: Fenrir:~% telnet ipv4.nonexiste.net [1028] 19:57:17 Trying 68.90.179.13... Connected to ipv4.nonexiste.net. Escape character is '^]'. Password: Last login: Sat Jun 2 14:26:58 2007 from inuyasha.nonexiste.net on pts/0 Linux nira 2.6.18-1-486 #1 Sat Oct 21 16:34:06 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux You have mail. Last was Mon 04 Jun 2007 06:57:37 PM CDT on pts/8. nira:~$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:03:F6:B0 inet addr:172.16.16.8 Bcast:172.16.16.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 And no, that's not misconfigured.