Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:51:42 -0800 (PST) From: fbsd-dave <fbsddave@mrcaffeine.com> To: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to force remote reboot of 3.4-Release? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003171346180.46645-100000@boris.netgate.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003170927530.19874-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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Have you considered a remote power control device? Like: http://www.baytechdcd.com/ http://www.apcc.com/products/pdu.cfm Dave On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Tom wrote: > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Michael Robinson wrote: > > > Last night, I was running a very large Postgresql query on one of my > > colocated development servers when all of a sudden the session completely > > froze. Since then, I can get TCP connections to all the open ports, but > > they just hang with no services ever coming up. Ping works fine. > > > > I assume this is due to one of FreeBSD's resource starvation features. > > What I'd like to know is, once the server gets into this state, is it > > possible to exploit any of the other resource starvation features in > > 3.4-Release to force a reboot? Getting access to the server is a big > > pain in the rear, so I'd like to avoid the trip if at all possible. > > > > Would a SYN flood do it? If so, does anyone know of a good SYN flood tool? > > > > -Michael Robinson > > It sounds like a disk hang actually. If you had access to the console > you'd probably see various disk warnings/errors. > > There are no known remote reboot exploits. > > > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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