From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 12 02:26:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA26087 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 02:26:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA26053 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 02:25:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from aegir.ifi.uio.no (2602@aegir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.190]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id LAA16968 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:25:53 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by aegir.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:25:52 +0100 (MET) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD splash in a wired article. References: Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse X-url: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 12 Jan 1998 11:25:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: Open Systems Networking's message of Fri, 9 Jan 1998 15:25:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Open Systems Networking writes: > http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/9581.html "DeVoe said that openly-developed operating systems, such as FreeBSD and Linux, had patches available for the teardrop exploit very early on." AFAIR BSD-based OSes, unlike Windows and Linux, never *were* vulnerable to teardrop - or does my memory fail me? -- * Finrod (INTJ) * Unix weenie * dag-erli@ifi.uio.no * cellular +47-92835919 * RFC1123: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send" # unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep