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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:37:55 -0700
From:      obrien@NUXI.cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien)
To:        brandon@glacier.cold.org (Brandon Gillespie)
Cc:        steve@edmweb.com (Steve Reid), security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [bugtraq] Serious Linux Security Bug
Message-ID:  <199610220537.WAA06158@relay.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961021155902.164A-100000@glacier.cold.org>; from Brandon Gillespie on Oct 21, 1996 16:00:20 -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961021134926.189B-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com> <Pine.NEB.3.95.961021155902.164A-100000@glacier.cold.org>

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Brandon Gillespie writes:
> I just tried this (from w95) against a FreeBSD 2.1.5 box and a 2.1.0 box,
> both had no problems.  Of course, I'm not sure if the ping ran correctly,
> it returned:
> 
> Request timed out.

This is the same output you get when you *do* kill a host.  The only way
to see if this was "effective" is to watch the console of the host.
 
-- 
-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)



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