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Re: NT sniper bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Firewall Mailing Lists Account)
Mon Jul 17 00:08:37 1995
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 11:29:24 -0400
Reply-To: don_lehman@dg-webo.webo.dg.com
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In-Reply-To: <9507142023.AA13274@eis.calstate.edu> from "Brian Court" at Jul
14, 95 01:23:00 pm
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> Does anybody know any details about the so-called NT sniper bug? That
> is, Windows NT under some circumstances is said to randomly select
> packets off the wire and fire off ICMP host unreachables to one of the
> addresses in that packet.
This has probably been said before, but check out:
<http://www.microsoft.com/Support/KBSL/bussys/winnt/Q131865.htm>
Microsoft has a pretty good writeup on this.
