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Re: FW: NT4 bug? Or bug in my hardware?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bracha@eye-on.co.il)
Sun Jan 26 14:49:14 1997

From: bracha@eye-on.co.il
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:54:17 +0200
To: Tom Vandepoel <tom@netvision.be>
CC: "Jason T. Luttgens" <luttgenj@kic.or.jp>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

Tom Vandepoel wrote:
> 
> 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 .....
> >
> Yeh, it works. And it just keeps on going.
> Another great reason to switch to linux...
> 
> Tom.
> 
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