From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 10:34:11 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA03771 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:34:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from superior.truenorth.org (ppp028-sm2.sirius.com [205.134.231.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA03766 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:34:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.truenorth.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA12385; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:32:42 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199612071832.KAA12385@superior.truenorth.org> Subject: Re: Is this Ping of Death for real? In-Reply-To: from Paul DuBois at "Dec 7, 96 10:18:46 am" To: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:32:40 -0800 (PST) Cc: mike@synwork.com, questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: jgrosch@sirius.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >The Ping o' Death is real, although not all systems are affected by it. >HP-UX 9 is susceptible, for instance. FreeBSD may not be. Perhaps >someone more knowledgable will comment. > >The Ping o' Death is different than the SYN attack. > HP-UX 10.01 and 10.10 are also susceptible to the Ping o' Death. There is a patch available from HP which will fix this. I believe that 10.20 has this problem fixed on the distribution media so no need for a patch. Josef "Enjoying the coffee at HP, Cupertino" Grosch -- Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.6 jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses