Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 06:21:41 -0700 (PDT) From: pino@dohd.org To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/21310: Telnetd locks up when trying to connect via NCSA telnet (DOS) Message-ID: <20000916132141.5F5A237B423@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 21310 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Telnetd locks up when trying to connect via NCSA telnet (DOS) >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Sep 16 06:30:03 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Martijn van Buul >Release: 4.1 >Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology >Environment: FreeBSD toad.stack.nl 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Sat Aug 12 00:32:30 CEST 2000 johans@toad.stack.nl:/toad.mnt/usr/sources/4.1/obj/toad.mnt/usr/sources/4.1/sys/toad i386 >Description: Granted, this is not really a bug in FreeBSD 4.1, but it *used* to work with previous releases: NCSA Telnet (the old DOS program) does not reply with a "DONT" to unknown WILL-options. This locks up telnetd, since it waits for the negotiation to settle. >How-To-Repeat: use the archaic DOS-based NCSA Telnet, and try to connect to a host running FreeBSD 4.1. Telnetd will lock up, before even displaying a login message. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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