Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:15:51 +0100 From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, Svein Skogen <svein-listmail@stillbilde.net>, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD Message-ID: <EA53E98C-25FC-466E-8C98-D9460C097393@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <86ljh5n1wk.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <20091211232356.309C21CC09@ptavv.es.net> <864ontolud.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4B262BF9.1010500@stillbilde.net> <86ljh5n1wk.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Dec 14, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > "Svein Skogen" <svein-listmail@stillbilde.net> writes: >> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: >>> "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes: >>>> I'm sure that there are systems happily running MSDOS, but I bet >>>> not too many are networked. >>> That's a bet you're likely to lose - most of them are POS terminals, >>> industrial control applications etc. >> Add to that the lot of them that are running IPX/SPX protocol... ;) >=20 > Damn you, I was this >< close to successfully repressing that memory! I was avoiding to jump into this, but... Maybe this hilarious proposal = will cure your pain, dude. http://ietfdocs.potaroo.net/rfc/rfc1791.txt I remember that around the early 90's I read one of those peecee = magazine authors (maybe Jerry Pournelle) asking the IETF to, please, = drop that TCP/IP thingy and instead choose a standard, widely used = protocol for the Internet: IPX. Let me touch more bad neurons for you: X.400 :) Borja.
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