Ghost gethost attack

[John R. Sowden]

On 03/27/2015 08:41 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 8:35 PM, John R. Sowden
> <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>> Here it is:
>>
>> john at sentry10:~$ dpkg -s eglibc
>> dpkg-query: package 'eglibc' is not installed and no information is
>> available
>> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
>> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> My mistake. Ubuntu uses eglibc, but the package is named libc6. So,
> the command should be "dpkg -s libc6". My other post has a test you
> can run as well.
>
> Brandon Vincent
>
john at sentry10:~$ dpkg -s libc6
Package: libc6
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 9233
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Multi-Arch: same
Source: eglibc
Version: 2.17-93ubuntu4
Replaces: libc6-i386
Provides: glibc-2.17-1, libc6-i686
Depends: libgcc1
Suggests: glibc-doc, debconf | debconf-2.0, locales
Breaks: nscd (<< 2.17)
Conflicts: prelink (<= 0.0.20090311-1), tzdata (<< 2007k-1), tzdata-etch
Conffiles:
  /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i686-linux-gnu.conf 1c63da36f33ec6647af1d8faff9b9795
Description: Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  Contains the standard libraries that are used by nearly all programs on
  the system. This package includes shared versions of the standard C 
library
  and the standard math library, as well as many others.
Homepage: http://www.eglibc.org
Original-Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc at lists.debian.org>
john at sentry10:~$