Re: Killing ircds via DNS

[David Luyer <david_luyer () PACIFIC NET AU>]

> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:02:59PM +1100, David Luyer wrote:
> > It appears some people have discovered a bug in various IRCd's res.c.
>
> IRCnet ircd had this bug fixed on 19 Jun 1997, release 2.9.3 was
> clean. As far as we can see, other irc daemons like hybrid, ircu,
> bahamut are not affected. The only one we could trace to have it
> was old dalnet dreamforge, so it could be all based on it are
> vulnerable.

Well, it was also in austhex, which was where I saw it.  There are many irc
daemons out there, and I wouldn't be surprised if a number were based on
old dalnet code.

David.
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