Re: udp packet storms - ping death
David A. Wagner (dawagner@phoenix.Princeton.EDU)
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>]
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