[132] in bugtraq
Re: udp packet storms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul 'Shag' Walmsley)
Tue Nov 1 01:24:26 1994
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 22:39:39 -0600 (CST)
From: "Paul 'Shag' Walmsley" <ccshag@everest.cclabs.missouri.edu>
To: anthony baxter <anthony.baxter@aaii.oz.au>
Cc: perry@imsi.com, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199410311545.CAA14067@alamein>
On Tue, 1 Nov 1994, anthony baxter wrote:
>
> Everything I can get my hands on here (Ultrix, SunOS, OSF/1, Irix 5, Solaris)
> has this bug. Whee.
>
>
> Besides, you get really funky results from ping:
> 3 packets transmitted, 52 packets received, -1633% packet loss
All of our Unix systems here respond to broadcast pings (IRIX, SunOS 4,
NeXTStep 3.2) ... but I believe that's by design, not by accident.
- Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag@everest.cclabs.missouri.edu>
"The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad."
- Salvador Dali
