Re: News DoS using sendsys

From: Charlesw (charleswat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 27 1998 - 10:34:24 PDT

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   I know the sendsys bug also effects Borderware out of the box.

On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Andrew V. Kovalev wrote:

> Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> > > Our newsserver (INN) all of a sudden gets several 100 'sendsys' requests
> > > per day. The addresses of the people requesting the sendsys seem to be
> >
> > Just today, the same folks switched to using newgroups.  Unfortunately,
>
> Right now I'm receiving "version"... Machine running INN has a hundred of
> /bin/sh's running... Aaarghh...
>
>
>                                 avk
>
> --
> uux "remotemachine!lynx -source http://www.microsoft.com/"
>   Brave new world...
>

             Charles Weidner Verio Northwest Spokane Branch.
                   When you build it, they will connect!
                         charleswat_private
*The box said "Windows 95, Windows NT4.0 or better".. so I installed Linux*

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