johnrat_private said: > If a user has the newest winsock patch for winsock 2.0, which can be > located at : > http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/info/ws2.htm > and attempts to do an address lookup on a address which doesn't exist > and is 13 characters long winsock will fault. This has been > reproduced on several computers and it takes a couple of seconds of > looking up to occur. This happens with every winsock program I've > tested including Netscape 3, Ie 3.0, and MS ping. Example sites that > work are: > www.socois.cool www.pcorner.org blahd.yahoo.com > This apparently only works on names that are exactly 13 characters > long (not including periods). This seems to be related to the Client for Microsoft Networks. I verified the error on one of my boxes, then removed MS client. The machine did not crash. Reinstall MS Client, crashed. >From tcpdump: 19:29:28.940000 ishmael.1027 > joshua.domain: 1+ (33) 19:29:28.940000 joshua.domain > ishmael.1027: 1 NXDomain* 0/1/0 (110) 19:29:28.990000 ishmael.1028 > joshua.domain: 2+ (44) 19:29:28.990000 joshua.domain > ishmael.1028: 2 0/0/0 (44) 19:29:29.220000 ishmael.netbios-ns > 10.255.255.255.netbios-ns: udp 50 19:29:29.970000 ishmael.netbios-ns > 10.255.255.255.netbios-ns: udp 50 19:29:30.730000 ishmael.netbios-ns > 10.255.255.255.netbios-ns: udp 50 19:29:31.490000 ishmael.netbios-ns > joshua.domain: 14+ (34) 19:29:31.490000 joshua.domain > ishmael.netbios-ns: 14 FormErr 0/0/0 (12) 19:29:32.990000 ishmael.netbios-ns > joshua.domain: 14+ (45) 19:29:32.990000 joshua.domain > ishmael.netbios-ns: 14 FormErr 0/0/0 (12) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven H. Parker, CLE - Certified Linux Enthusiast http://www.ee.pdx.edu/~stevep "If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ... Oh, wait a minute, he already does." -------------------------------------------------------------------
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