I can crash my Windows NT 4.0 Server with nmap, and its fun! Its funny how a simple nmap scan can crash the stupid thing.
Dennis On 12:50 Mon 27 Oct , will hill wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- emerge -p world Louisiana State University Biological and Agricultural Department Computer Systems Administrator www.bae.lsu.edu Ph: 225.578.1072 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
