[162] in bugtraq
Re: udp packet storms - ping death
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Strickland)
Thu Nov 3 20:54:58 1994
From: Karl Strickland <karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk>
To: dawagner@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David A. Wagner)
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 00:38:20 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: chowes@helix.net, bugtraq@fc.net,
8lgm@bagpuss.demon.co.uk ([8LGM] Security Team)
In-Reply-To: <9411021602.AA25003@tucson.Princeton.EDU> from "David A. Wagner" at Nov 2, 94 11:02:52 am
> ObBug: if you use the SunOS tmpfs, try
>
> cd /tmp; /usr/etc/mknod fifo p; ln fifo link; ls -ClFg link fifo
>
> ...but not at peak hours!
>
> Sun knows about it and after a year, there's still no fix. [As
> far as I know -- if there's one, I'd love to hear of it, so I can
> tell the computer center here to add the darn thing: after hearing
> of this one, they hacked the kernel and removed the mkfifo and
> mknod S_IFIFO system calls. <sigh>]
been looking into this & i know what the problem is - it happens on any
special node, not just fifo's.
sys/tmpfs/tmp_vnodeops.c needs fixing, but I dont have the source.
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