Re: Here is a way to crash Solaris using ping!

From: <mch_at_world.std.com>
Date: 1997/07/29
Message-ID: <EE3tqt.ApJ@world.std.com>#1/1

In article <nkrafj5yiln.fsf_at_jester.net.msstate.edu>, Frank Peters <fwp_at_jester.net.msstate.edu> wrote:
>Here is the list of patches for this problem on different releases:
>
>103630-09 SunOS 5.5.1
>103631-09 SunOS 5.5.1_x86
>103169-12 SunOS 5.5
>103170-12 SunOS 5.5_x86

If you have a version of Solaris for which a patch isn't available, either upgrade or
/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_respond_to_echo_broadcast 0

(of course, to make that permanent, you'd need to add it to your startup files)

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Received on Tue Jul 29 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT