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Re: udp packet storms - ping death
From: perry () imsi com (Perry E. Metzger)
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 07:56:55 -0500
"Michael Neuman" says:
Perry Metzger says:Charles Howes says:Our copy of ping is installed setuid root; ...So you mean that any student at princeton can panic any Sun there just by typing that command? Cool...There are already so many ways to panic suns from userland...Here's a complete waste of bandwidth and everyone's time... Name as many ways to remotely panic a Sun that you know of, Perry, or don't fill the ether with this worthless drivel.
Truncating /dev/audio (although this seems to have been fixed in 4.1.3, or at least 4.1.3_U1). Doing unexpected things the streams networking drivers seems to do nicely, too. I used to have a big list of things to panic suns, but I've misplaced it. I'll search about and see what I can dig up and check what still panics my current machines. Generally speaking, "unusual" operations on streams drivers seem to make 4.1.X machines go gaga. I haven't tried playing with the mouse driver; it looks like a nice place to check next. I also haven't tried running the program that generates random code and executes it lately. I believe it was called something like "crashme" but I'm probably wrong. I recall that it used to do nicely under older 4.1.X environments, though the latest 4.1.3s might not go south any longer. I'll have to check... Perry
Current thread:
- bizzare ftp stuff..., (continued)
- bizzare ftp stuff... Tim Scanlon (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms Perry E. Metzger (Oct 31)
- Re: udp packet storms Charles Howes (Oct 31)
- Re: udp packet storms Mike Raffety (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms David A. Wagner (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Charles Howes (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death David A. Wagner (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Karl Strickland (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Perry E. Metzger (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Michael Neuman (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Perry E. Metzger (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Dave Horsfall (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms David A. Wagner (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Karl Strickland (Nov 03)
- tcpd on ultrix 4.3a Douglas Ray (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Joseph McDonald (Nov 02)
- Re: SunOS fatal bugs (was Re: udp packet storms - ping death) Darren Reed (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Charles Howes (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Paul O'Donnell (Nov 04)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Charles Howes (Nov 04)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Charles Howes (Nov 04)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Quentin Fennessy (Nov 04)