Re: udp packet storms - ping death

[chowes () helix net (Charles Howes)]

On Wed, 2 Nov 1994, David A. Wagner wrote:

> Hrmm.  We have a special version of ping installed here, but
> the command
>
>       ping -eraw 255.255.255.255
>
> will consistently and reliably panic any Sun here.

<snip>

> 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...

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