From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 22 20:15:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA07840 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 20:15:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA07834 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 20:15:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA26966; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 20:15:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 20:15:38 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Tom Samplonius cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has anybody addressed this "ping" problem? Is it even an issue with FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Actually, it says that NetBSD may be vulnerable, and doesn't specifically list the 2.2 or -current branches of FreeBSD. Given 4.4-lite integration, and the possibility the NetBSD was vulnerable, I felt it prudent to ask. On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Tom Samplonius wrote: > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 20:06:21 -0800 (PST) > From: Tom Samplonius > To: Jaye Mathisen > Cc: hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Has anybody addressed this "ping" problem? Is it even an issue with FreeBSD? > > > On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > > > > > > > > http://www.sophist.demon.co.uk/ping/ > > > > > > I believe that the page you are referring to says that FreeBSD is safe, > but it is unreachable right now. But you know that already, because you > read it before referring it, right? > > The BSD codebase has always been free of this bug (well I can't actually > speak about pre-4.3 versions, but I doubt any still exist). > > Tom >