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Re: NT sniper bug?

From: fwml () banditos webo dg com (Firewall Mailing Lists Account)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 11:29:24 -0400


Does anybody know any details about the so-called NT sniper bug?  That
is, Windows NT under some circumstances is said to randomly select
packets off the wire and fire off ICMP host unreachables to one of the
addresses in that packet.


This has probably been said before, but check out:
<http://www.microsoft.com/Support/KBSL/bussys/winnt/Q131865.htm>

Microsoft has a pretty good writeup on this.

Current thread:

Re: Security Problem ftpd (includes wu.ftpd 2.4 and 2.4.2 beta 4) Dan Thorson (Jul 12)
- Re: Security Problem ftpd (includes wu.ftpd 2.4 and 2.4.2 beta 4) Casper Dik (Jul 13)
- Re: Security Problem ftpd (includes wu.ftpd 2.4 and 2.4.2 beta 4) Jeremy Fitzhardinge (Jul 13)
  - Re: Security Problem ftpd (includes wu.ftpd 2.4 and 2.4.2 beta 4) Casper Dik (Jul 13)
  - NT sniper bug? Brian Court (Jul 14)
    - Re: NT sniper bug? Firewall Mailing Lists Account (Jul 15)
    - Re: NT sniper bug? Forrest Aldrich (Jul 16)
- Re: Security Problem ftpd (includes wu.ftpd 2.4 and 2.4.2 beta 4) Jas (Jul 13)
- Re: Security Problem ftpd (includes wu.ftpd 2.4 and 2.4.2 beta 4) Scott Barman (Jul 13)
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