a crackpot idea i had

[Aaron Grewell]

Unfortunately for me, my 1.3 box was my opportunity to learn about Linux
security.  Somebody used it to generate a malformed-packet attack
against some DEC Ultrix box at Qwest.  That sucked.  There's nothing
quite like learning the hard way!

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:24, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:07:14PM -0700, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> >>From a stability standpoint 1.2 and 1.3 totally rocked.  It bugged me
> >that the glibc issues made my boxes totally incompatible with everyone
> >else's, but judging from the wailing RH users were doing about the early
> >glibc2 releases I'm really glad I missed that evilness.
> 
> I didn't forget about 1.2 and 1.3, but was commenting only on the more
> recent versions.  We still have a couple of 1.3 systems in production (with
> appropriate security patches of course), and they rarely give us any
> problems.  In point of fact, ftp.celestial.com is running COL 1.3, and
> probably will until I decide whether to move it and the other services to a
> Caldera 3.1.1 or a freebsd 4.5 system.  It's been chugging happily along at
> least since 9/2/1998 without a significant hiccup.
> 
> Bill
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