[35135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SMcGrath@dhhs.state.nh.us)
Tue Feb 27 16:10:36 2001
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From: SMcGrath@dhhs.state.nh.us
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:08:39 -0500
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Same here
Cisco account manager sent us a notification of the bug.
Scott
Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>@merit.edu on 02/27/2001 08:11:31 AM
Sent by: owner-nanog@merit.edu
To: Jim Duncan <jnduncan@cisco.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor.
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001, Jim Duncan wrote:
> As a side note, this is a problem with the standards. In particular,
> how the standards _require_ a function to be implemented.
<TONGUE LOCATION="CHEEK">
Now, if only all other standards were implemented so faithfully
by all the vendors ..
</TONGUE>
:-)
(sorry, couldn't resist.)
And yes, we received a call at work from our cisco rep outlining the
bug a few days ago. That was really nice of them. Well done guys.
Adrian
--
Adrian Chadd "The fact you can download a 100 megabyte file
<adrian@creative.net.au> from half way around the world should be viewed
as an accident and not a right."
-- Adrian Chadd and Bill Fumerola
