From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 14 15:15:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C514910656C0 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:15:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from borjam@sarenet.es) Received: from proxypop2.sarenet.es (proxypop2.sarenet.es [194.30.0.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692BC8FC21 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:15:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.1.204] (izaro.sarenet.es [192.148.167.11]) by proxypop2.sarenet.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C2373625; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:15:51 +0100 (CET) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Borja Marcos In-Reply-To: <86ljh5n1wk.fsf@ds4.des.no> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:15:51 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20091211232356.309C21CC09@ptavv.es.net> <864ontolud.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4B262BF9.1010500@stillbilde.net> <86ljh5n1wk.fsf@ds4.des.no> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Polytropon , Bill Moran , Matthew Seaman , "Sam Fourman Jr." , Svein Skogen , Anton Shterenlikht , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:15:58 -0000 On Dec 14, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > "Svein Skogen" writes: >> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: >>> "Kevin Oberman" writes: >>>> I'm sure that there are systems happily running MSDOS, but I bet >>>> not too many are networked. >>> That's a bet you're likely to lose - most of them are POS terminals, >>> industrial control applications etc. >> Add to that the lot of them that are running IPX/SPX protocol... ;) >=20 > Damn you, I was this >< close to successfully repressing that memory! I was avoiding to jump into this, but... Maybe this hilarious proposal = will cure your pain, dude. http://ietfdocs.potaroo.net/rfc/rfc1791.txt I remember that around the early 90's I read one of those peecee = magazine authors (maybe Jerry Pournelle) asking the IETF to, please, = drop that TCP/IP thingy and instead choose a standard, widely used = protocol for the Internet: IPX. Let me touch more bad neurons for you: X.400 :) Borja.