Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 11:15:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jgrosch@sirius.com Cc: fullermd@narcissus.ml.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, chuckr@mat.net, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@freefall.FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM target Message-ID: <199705021815.LAA09090@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199705020514.WAA04673@superior.mooseriver.com> from "Josef Grosch" at May 1, 97 10:14:35 pm
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> Temping as it might be, a Ping 'o' Death attack might bring us more truble > then we want. Of course, if someone wanted to build a little program to connect to their smtp server and send an "RSET\r\n" every <configurable interval> to keep the smtp server process alive and it's pages in core... And then if a certain mailing list of someone's friends were made aware of the URL to pick up their copy of the program... And then if it's realized that Linux is a memory overcommit architecture... It seems to me that this hypothetical person would play hell with their ability to start spam sending processes. It seems to me. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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