From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 11 01:35:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28697 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 01:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28692 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 01:35:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00309; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 01:32:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Marius Bendiksen cc: Scott , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Huge Bug in FreeBSD not fixed? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:53:40 +0200." <3.0.5.32.19980811095340.0092e900@mail.scancall.no> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 01:32:55 -0700 Message-ID: <305.902824375@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I experienced the same thing, with someone on IRC threatening to take down > my box. Of course, I laughed at him, but then my box went down. He also > said he was going to attack freefall, and that would _certainly_ be bad > news. He was running Linux, as I recall. I ran this thing 20 times, with and without the -harder option, and it did absolutely nothing to my box. Just goes to show, these things generally constitute fairly apocryphal evidence without a lot more details. Also, just for the record, people have attacked freefall many times. Just because someone said he was going to nuke you one day and it worked (and I have no idea how seriously well-maintained your systems are from a security fascist's perspective) is by no means an indication that it works every time or in every circumstance. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message