From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jan 20 17:48:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.uscreativetypes.com (ns1.uscreativetypes.com [199.45.183.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413461548F for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:48:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lusr@ns1.uscreativetypes.com) Received: from localhost (lusr@localhost) by ns1.uscreativetypes.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA15147; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:51:29 GMT (envelope-from lusr@ns1.uscreativetypes.com) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:51:29 +0000 (GMT) From: The Big Loser Reply-To: The Big Loser To: marcs@go2net.com Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Brett Glass Subject: Re: bugtraq posts: stream.c - new FreeBSD exploit? (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I gotta say ease back, buddy. I don't see anything wrong with generating ideas, even if they are just *gasp* speculation. How is anyone's ideas less relevant than your gripe...your posting could be accused of being part of the same problem. I think most of us filter through tons of messages per day from these lists so I don't think anyone is in a better position to judge which postings are 'useful' than anyone else. IMHO, I'd like to see a canning of the postings which are soaked in negativity. They are even less 'useful' than the random guesses about which you are complaining. Be Kind The Super Lusr On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 marcs@go2net.com wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > > > My guess is that there's a long code path, or other inefficiency, > > in the way the ACK is handled. Perhaps a linear search for the > > right socket instead of one that's more clevery implemented > > (e.g. search by port, then address, etc.). > > How about you stop making random guess after random guess about what the > fixes are when you don't even know what the problem is, and leave it to > someone who knows the details of exactly what it does and what impact it > has? Seems like every two minutes you send a new message to the list with > a new guess at what could fix it. > > No useful purpose is served by flooding mailing lists with speculation > after speculation. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message