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Re: udp packet storms - ping death
From: dawagner () phoenix Princeton EDU (David A. Wagner)
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 11:02:52 -0500 (EST)
So you mean that any student at princeton can panic any Sun there just by typing that command? Cool...
No -- only two of us students know about it right now, and the computer center would skin us alive if we spread it around too much... ;-) ObBug: if you use the SunOS tmpfs, try cd /tmp; /usr/etc/mknod fifo p; ln fifo link; ls -ClFg link fifo ...but not at peak hours! Sun knows about it and after a year, there's still no fix. [As far as I know -- if there's one, I'd love to hear of it, so I can tell the computer center here to add the darn thing: after hearing of this one, they hacked the kernel and removed the mkfifo and mknod S_IFIFO system calls. <sigh>] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wagner dawagner () princeton edu
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- Re: udp packet storms, (continued)
- Re: udp packet storms Steve Simmons (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms Perry E. Metzger (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms Tim Newsham (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms Pete Shipley (Nov 03)
- bizzare ftp stuff... Tim Scanlon (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms Perry E. Metzger (Oct 31)
- Re: udp packet storms Charles Howes (Oct 31)
- Re: udp packet storms Mike Raffety (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms David A. Wagner (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Charles Howes (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death David A. Wagner (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Karl Strickland (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Perry E. Metzger (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Michael Neuman (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Perry E. Metzger (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Dave Horsfall (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms David A. Wagner (Nov 01)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Karl Strickland (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms Steve Simmons (Nov 01)
- tcpd on ultrix 4.3a Douglas Ray (Nov 02)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Joseph McDonald (Nov 02)
- Re: SunOS fatal bugs (was Re: udp packet storms - ping death) Darren Reed (Nov 03)
- Re: udp packet storms - ping death Charles Howes (Nov 03)