[13621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Wed Nov 12 13:25:10 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 18:27:38 +0000
From: Leigh Porter <leigh@wisper.net>
Reply-To: leigh@wisper.net
To: Bruce Robertson <bruce@greatbasin.net>
CC: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Bruce Robertson wrote:
> >>>>> "Randy" == Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> writes:
>
> Randy> can this 'discussion' please be moved to ms-dos-weenies or
> Randy> something?
>
> You miss the point. Thousands of Web servers out there are
> Pentium-based.
Why is that a problem? Unless somebody could execute the code on the
boxthen it is not a threat - closed systems, like WWW servers (most
servers like
that really) should not be in any danger.
A multi-user box, or anything that can give shell access would be really
worth
upgrading to something that didn't have the bug!
As to if it should be discussed on the nanog list - well, maybe not :)
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