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Date:      Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:14:31 -0400
From:      Rajit Manohar <rajit@csl.cornell.edu>
To:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: poink and freebsd 
Message-ID:  <199904191914.PAA03075@mozart.csl.cornell.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:08:58 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990419150002.20749G-100000@hiway1.exit109.com> 

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>> so, if you setup a timer to execute the poink sploit on the box every,
>> say, 10 seconds? (it takes little bandwidth, and 10 seconds is nothing)..
>> and the machine is dead, and will stay dead...
>> 
>> -Chris

Right. I'm sure that's what would happen. And a server would be worse,
because all the clients would get hosed... (The same sort of thing
happens if someone decides to plug a machine onto a subnet and uses
someone else's IP address...)

-Rajit


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