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Re: OOB Bug stills persists after hot fix


From: ervin () NAME NET (Ervin Fried)
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 12:36:38 -0400


We applied the OOB hotfix to 2 NT Server 4.0, SP2 machines

Then we tested it with the Perl version of nuke (nuke.pl), on a Win95 machine.

Result: blue screen, reboot needed.

Are there any success stories about OOB hotfix?

Maybe is something particular to our servers ...


Ervin Fried

At 10:11 AM 5/19/97 -0500, Dan Freise wrote:
Matthew Dovey wrote:

http://pobox.leidenuniv.nl/%7Eewit/winnuke/, the Mac binary also listed
on that page appears to still be capable of downing an NT 4.0

       It does.
Does anyone know what is peculiar about the Mac implementation of the

       Oddly enough, there is nothing peculiar about the mac implementation.
Upon compiling the mac source on two separate UNIX machines, the
resulting binary fails to crash an NT box.

       The obvious conclusion is that Apple's Open Transport somehow sends a
different packet than most other TCP/IP implementations.

       If I get the time to dig the packets apart, I'll post the results
here
as well.
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