Jamie, Ditto for 6.1 on Win95. Appears to be fixed in 6.1, among other bugs, including an incompatibility with DEC Windows that was causing problems at my shop. Andrew -- "The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from." (Andrew S. Tanenbaum) +-----------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Andrew Pitman | Management Information Systems, | | Unix System Administrator/ | Technology Operations Support | | Webmaster | at Rowan University | +-----------------------------+---------------------------------+ On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jamie Lawrence wrote: > I couldn't reproduce either effect with Exceed 6.1 under NTsp3. > Everything behaved normally, both for new and existing sessions. > > -j > > At 01:57 PM 4/28/99 -0700, Matt Wilbur wrote: > >Exceed (an X server, not an X emulator) version 6.0.1.0 on NT appears to > >have fixed this problem, somewhat... > > > >Telnetting to port 6000 locks the server up for 20-30 seconds, but it > >recovers eventually. Not surprisingly, using netcat has the same effect... > >although, contrary to Chris's findings with Exceed 5, I didn't need to send > >any garbage characters, the connection alone did the job. Also, it works > >from any host, not just the one the xdm session had been initiated with, > >regardless of host access settings in Xconfig, Exceeds "configuration" tool. > > > > > >I'd still consider this DoS-bait, when you imagine a one-liner to > >continuously connect to port 6000 of your favorite Exceed user's machine. > > > >Matt Wilbur > > > >[snip] > >> > >> This is regarding Hummingbird's Exceed X emulator v5 (and possibly v6) > >> running on Windows NT. I haven't tested Win95/98. > >> > >> The Exceed X server allows inbound TCP connections on port > >> 6000 from the XDM> host. If someone uses telnet from the XDM host to > >connect to > >> a PC running Exceed on port 6000 and enters any garbage text, the X server > > > >> will hang and the Exceed session is frozen for good. > >> > >> I have notified Hummingbird via their tech support web site > >> but have not received a response yet. > >> > >> Chris LaFournaise > >> cjlafournaiseat_private > >> >
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