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SubjectRe: How to survive in a Micro$oft environment??


"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
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