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Re: Technical Observations on SATAN: Issue: VMS and TCP/IP
From: pickerin () phoenix sas muohio edu (Robert A. Pickering Jr.)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 07:26:39 -0400 (EDT)
We Ran SATAN here against several of our Unix machines, all passed. I then tried it agains one of our AXP/VMS workstations running Multinet. It crashed. After the machine came back up we tried it again. It passed fine. I did Heavy tests both times. At first glance it appears that the AXP just ran out of memory. -Rob On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Tim Scanlon wrote:
Erik Lindquist wrote: |For some reason when I test SATAN against VMS systems running either UCX or |Wollongong TCP/IP stacks the systems crash. |This seems to be true for the heavy test only. Other potentially |coincidental events include: | 1. First test on a given node; when system reboots and a test | is again performed a successful test seems to be made. | 2. The first test uses the FQDN and the second test uses the | IP address. |I have no idea where to look? The crash logs do not reveal anything helpful. |A message coming from SATAN says: | bin/udp_scan: are we talking to a dead host or network? I do some admin stuff at GMU, and while one of the other admin's here was running it against our subnet we encountered a crash. We've got a Paragon, and on the heavy scan it crashed during the test. We havn't isolated why yet, but suspect that it was becasue it was being hammered quite fast. This was after the "light & med" tests hasd passed. That machine is fairly tight, so it wasn't a matter of there being alot of ports open or anything... Anyway it didn't happen again, and we really ~obviously~ arn't looking to replicate it, particlularly on this machine, but I'd be interested to hear of any similar stuff from other folks. -tfs ________________________________________________________________ tfs () vampire science gmu edu (NeXTmail, MIME) Tim Scanlon George Mason University (PGP key avail.) Public Affairs I speak for myself, but often claim demonic posession
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- Re: Technical Observations on SATAN: Issue: VMS and TCP/IP Software Test Account (Apr 06)
- Re: Technical Observations on SATAN: Issue: VMS and TCP/IP Lawrence MacIntyre - 615.576.0824 (Apr 07)
- Re: Technical Observations on SATAN: Issue: VMS and TCP/IP Carl R. Forsythe (Apr 07)
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- Re: Technical Observations on SATAN: Issue: VMS and TCP/IP Tim Scanlon (Apr 07)
- Re: Technical Observations on SATAN: Issue: VMS and TCP/IP Robert A. Pickering Jr. (Apr 07)
- Re: Technical Observations on SATAN: Issue: VMS and TCP/IP Leo Bicknell (Apr 07)
- Re: Technical Observations on SATAN: Issue: VMS and TCP/IP Bob Rahe (Apr 07)
- Re: Technical Observations on SATAN: Issue: VMS and TCP/IP Herb Peyerl (Apr 07)