On 2003.10.27 11:23 -ray wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, will hill wrote: > > > It is indeed a sorry OS that would let it's TCP/IP stack take it down. > > Sun had a problem where they made some applications look at a central > > site, and unplugging the computer would cause it to hang badly but not > > crash. > > But that wasn't always the case. Do ya'll remember the Land/Teardrop DoS > attacks and variants that occurred around 1997. It was able to take down > a lot of OS's that normally wouldn't be considered "sorry", and caused all > the vendors to take a long hard look at hardening their TCP/IP stack. > Check out this message i found in my archives. > > -ray >
Thanks Ray, lists like that redefine what sorry is. Comercial software looks sorry next to free software on that list. Linux and OpenBSD were fixed before the problem, and free BSDs were fixed quickly. Comercial varients of BSD like Windoze did not get fixed and for all I know, still suffer the same problems.
