Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 15:38:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jgrosch@sirius.com, 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: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970502153803.29889H-100000@dolphin.inna.net> In-Reply-To: <199705021815.LAA09090@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Fri, 2 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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. What's that URL again? Jamie Bowden Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.
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