[4035] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: FW: NT4 bug? Or bug in my hardware?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sebastian Dols)
Wed Jan 22 15:24:53 1997
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:00:48 +0100
From: sdols@adv.es (Sebastian Dols)
To: WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
No problem in your hardware. All of our NT4 servers shown 'CPU USAGE
=100%' after the test. But the server remains useable and without known
performance losses. Maybe a problem in the resource window, not in the
resource itself?
Jason T. Luttgens wrote:
>
> Can anyone confirm this? On an NT4 server (maybe workstation too, I don't have it to try),
> if you telnet to port 135, type a bunch of junk (say 10-20 characters), hit enter and disconnect,
> the server's processor utilization will go up to 100%!!! The only fix I found was to reboot.
> I tried with and without SP2.....same result. The installation is 'out of the box' with standard
> default install options, of course including TCP/IP. I have no other NT4 servers to try this on
> and was wondering if I could get someone to try and confirm this .....
>
> Luck
