Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 11:45:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM target Message-ID: <199705021845.LAA06944@superior.mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <199705021815.LAA09090@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "May 2, 97 11:15:01 am"
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Terry Lambert said: >> 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 <configurable interval> >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, that is a diabolically clever idea! Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.1 jgrosch@sirius.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses
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