Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:27:01 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: How to survive in a Micro$oft environment?? |
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"Michael H. Warfield" wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 05:00:37PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > Fatal it is! > > Sounds like a candidate for a security advisory, due to its > adverse impact on network performance. Any word back from Caldera > before it hits the fan on BugTraq?
They are on it.
Jeff
> > > Jeff > > > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > > Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:23:40 -0700 > > > From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> > > > > I agree with this assessement, however, if the underlying IP stack > > > returns errant data, then it could cause the application to > > > malfunction, so I would not dismiss looking at what's going on in > > > the IP stack so quickly, particularly since there seem to be other > > > problems with NT servers related to this problem with ICMP > > > requests. At any rate, this is Caldera's problem, since LIZARD is > > > their installer. They have the trace and the info, and are looking > > > at it. > > > > Look at the trace, they ping the router and then scan the entire > > > subnet looking for a DNS server response to "auto-detect" the > > > DNS server IP address so they don't have to ask the user for > > > such details. > > > > I think the bug is pretty obvious, and fatal in your configuration. > > > > Later, > > > David S. Miller > > > davem@redhat.com > > Mike > -- > Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | mhw@WittsEnd.com > (The Mad Wizard) | (770) 331-2437 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ > NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all > PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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