From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 2 11:46:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA15672 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 11:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (ppp010-sm2.sirius.com [205.134.231.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA15665 for ; Fri, 2 May 1997 11:46:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06944; Fri, 2 May 1997 11:45:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199705021845.LAA06944@superior.mooseriver.com> Subject: Re: SPAM target In-Reply-To: <199705021815.LAA09090@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "May 2, 97 11:15:01 am" To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 11:45:06 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: jgrosch@sirius.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] 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 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 >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