From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 1 18:13:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA21012 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr04.primenet.com (tlambert@usr04.primenet.com [206.165.6.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA21006 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:13:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA01588; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:12:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710020112.SAA01588@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD TCP stack and RST processing [subj changed] To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 01:12:55 +0000 (GMT) Cc: richard@a42.deep-thought.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710011014.DAA08484@implode.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Oct 1, 97 03:14:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The main reason I didn't provide version info > >was that I thought it was an easy enough situation to replicate if it was > >indeed replicatable. Unfortunately I know of no systems that are running > >CURRENT to test upon. > > Thanks for the bug report. In the future, it's better to either file a PR > via GNATS or send email to freebsd-bugs; you're more likely to get to the > right people this way. I forwarded your original message to some people > yesterday who might have some input on this. I don't get why this is considered a bug. You do something bizarre, and you get an undefined result. The only thing it could "deny service" on is if you let someone subscribe to a list, and then they ambushed you: a trojan subscription, so to speak. This would be come pretty obvious when the mail failed, and subsequent subscriotions would be blocked. It's only when you stab the guy calling you in the back that you can make him have a long timeout, right? He has to be willing to call you in the first place... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.