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From: Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To: Daniel Leeds <dleeds@dfacades.com>
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Subject: Re: land patch?
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Daniel Leeds wrote:

> is there a patch for freebsd 2.2.5 to defeat the land attack?
> 
> is it just one file in the kernel source tree that needs to be
> rebuilt with the newest code?
> 
> thanks

  Belongs on freebsd-questions, not freebsd-hackers...

  Yes there is an update.  If you cvsup the 2.2-stable branch you will get
the update automatically.

  However on testing land.c against an older system, I can't seem to get
land.c to do anything other than eat up some CPU.

Tom