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Re: The "Mac DoS Attack," a Scheme for Blocking Internet Connections
From: joelja () DARKWING UOREGON EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:41:26 -0800
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Paul Schinder wrote:
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:07:03 -0500, John Copeland wrote:* Then help get the word to owners of Macintoshes connected to cablemodems,ADSL modems, or LANs to install the patch that Apple has developed (http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11559).The initial Apple patch for this problem fails for a variety of machines. See http://www.macintouch.com for some user reports. The patch disabled TCP/IP on my iBook when using a dial-up PPP connection, so I had to remove it. As of the last time I checked, afternoon Dec 29. a revised patch had not appeared. Has anyone checked Apple's non-MacOS machines?
it appears to be an issue only with open transport 2.5.2 which is only present in os9 and os8.6 on select machines (g4's with os 8.6 slot loading imacs etc).
I'm not worried much about the Newton I'm writing this on, since it only goes online occasionally on a dialup. But our Airport, which fronts for the iBook when it's at home, is on our house LAN connected to our cable modem. Do the Airports have the same problem? How about MacOS X server and Darwin?
airports, shouldn't, the Ibook probably will since it has os9, but it should be behind the airport nat.
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- Re: The "Mac DoS Attack," a Scheme for Blocking Internet Connections Paul Schinder (Dec 30)
- Re: The "Mac DoS Attack," a Scheme for Blocking Internet Connections Joel Jaeggli (Dec 30)
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