From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 2 11:18:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA14136 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 11:18:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA14130; Fri, 2 May 1997 11:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA09090; Fri, 2 May 1997 11:15:01 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705021815.LAA09090@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: SPAM target To: jgrosch@sirius.com Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 11:15:01 -0700 (MST) Cc: fullermd@narcissus.ml.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, chuckr@mat.net, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@freefall.FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199705020514.WAA04673@superior.mooseriver.com> from "Josef Grosch" at May 1, 97 10:14:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Temping as it might be, a Ping 'o' Death attack might bring us more truble > then we want. Of course, if someone wanted to build a little program to connect to their smtp server and send an "RSET\r\n" every to keep the smtp server process alive and it's pages in core... And then if a certain mailing list of someone's friends were made aware of the URL to pick up their copy of the program... And then if it's realized that Linux is a memory overcommit architecture... It seems to me that this hypothetical person would play hell with their ability to start spam sending processes. It seems to me. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.