Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:11:00 -0800 From: "Scott R. Sewall" <sewall@ix.netcom.com> To: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to force remote reboot of 3.4-Release? Message-ID: <38D1CC73.7E5524C1@ix.netcom.com> References: <200003170213.KAA26062@netrinsics.com>
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I use neptune to generate SYN flood. Don't remember the download site. -- Scott Michael Robinson wrote: > Last night, I was running a very large Postgresql query on one of my > colocated development servers when all of a sudden the session completely > froze. Since then, I can get TCP connections to all the open ports, but > they just hang with no services ever coming up. Ping works fine. > > I assume this is due to one of FreeBSD's resource starvation features. > What I'd like to know is, once the server gets into this state, is it > possible to exploit any of the other resource starvation features in > 3.4-Release to force a reboot? Getting access to the server is a big > pain in the rear, so I'd like to avoid the trip if at all possible. > > Would a SYN flood do it? If so, does anyone know of a good SYN flood tool? > > -Michael Robinson > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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