[175] in bugtraq
Re: udp packet storms - ping death
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rens Troost)
Sat Nov 5 14:06:54 1994
To: Joseph McDonald <joe@smartdocs.com>
Cc: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Nov 1994 18:42:16 PST."
<Pine.SUN.3.90.941104183931.20817G-100000@warp10.smartdocs.com>
Reply-To: rens@imsi.com
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 1994 12:31:53 -0500
From: Rens Troost <rens@imsi.com>
>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph McDonald <joe@smartdocs.com> writes:
Joseph> On Sat, 5 Nov 1994, Darren Reed wrote:
>> ob`bug': ever had a cd-rom mounted on sunos4 and ejected it
>> without umounting it first ? not much fun...
Joseph> Funny thing, this happened to me today as a matter of fact
Joseph> on a 4.1.1 machine, hung the system good, even L1A no
Joseph> workie.
Really? Is this reproducible? I have newbies do this all the time, and
assuming the disk was mounted ro you can just umount it. (4.1.2 and
above; I have no 4.1.1 machines left to test on, thank god.) If you're
not mounting your cdrom ro, well, you have other problems.
-Rens
