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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:23:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: easy way to crash freebsd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSO.4.21.0103021521000.27749-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0103021514400.27749-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com>

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People asking me how this could be used as a local user.
Well i guess if you wanted to you could find something root runs
that writes to /tmp then umask resolv.conf
and echo "" > resolv.conf

I am in no way supporting that...just answering a question.



On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Dan Phoenix wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:15:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>
> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: easy way to crash freebsd
> 
> 
> 
> symbolic link /etc/resolv.conf
> to a non-existant file....throw a bunch of connections at it
> and watch it reboot.
> 
> 
> --
> Dan
> 
> +------------------------------------------------------+ 
> |           BRAVENET WEB SERVICES                      |
> |              dan@bravenet.com                        |
> |             make installworld                        |
> | ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail     |
> | ln -s /var/qmail/bin/newaliases /usr/sbin/newaliases |
> +______________________________________________________+
> 
> 
> 


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