OT: Re: Solaris telnetd failure with Heimdal client

[Will Fiveash]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 07:03:53PM +0100, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:57 +0000, Dave Love wrote:
> > [I made a support call, of
> > course, but our contract appears useless when a non-Sun client crashes
> > a network process.]
> 
> Off-topic reply: How extraordinarily weird. Does that mean that you
> won't get support if someone attacks a DoS flaw?

The folks are Sun are aware of this and looking into it.  I do not know
the details of the interaction between Sun support and Dave so I can not
comment on that.  In regards to a DoS, I thought telnetd was spawned by
inetd so I don't see the DoS.

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Will Fiveash
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Austin, TX, USA (TZ=CST6CDT)