From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 13 19:54:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA21112 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:54:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from pandora.hh.kew.com (root@kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA21102 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:54:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ahd@kew.com) Received: from kew.com (sonata.hh.kew.com [192.195.203.135]) by pandora.hh.kew.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA20066 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:54:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <346BCB5F.E8C4F50F@kew.com> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:54:07 -0500 From: Drew Derbyshire Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks, Stoneham MA 02180 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en]C-MOENE (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Pentium Bug to be ignored -- say it ain't so References: <199711132030.MAA16638@kithrup.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > I have been trying to get this working in FreeBSD since last night; right > now, I'm not sure why what is happening is happening. But I'm giving up -- > I've had it "explained" to me by Jordan that even if I got it working, it > would not be considered, because this is simply not anything that anyone > needs to worry about. I was under the impression that the FreeBSD core team took support of web servers and the like very seriously. For anyone to take the opinion that such an obvious Denial of Service attack is not something to worry about is at best unfortunate, and seriously conflicts with my believe about the seriousness of the support of FreeBSD. Depressed, -ahd- -- Internet: ahd@kew.com Voice: 781-279-9812 "Kyrie Eleison down the road that I must travel . . ."