Re: The "Mac DoS Attack," a Scheme for Blocking Internet

From: Joel Jaeggli (joeljaat_private)
Date: Thu Dec 30 1999 - 11:41:26 PST

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    On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Paul Schinder wrote:
    
    > On         Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:07:03 -0500, John Copeland wrote:
    > >
    > >* Then help get the word to owners of Macintoshes connected to cable
    > modems,
    > >ADSL modems, or LANs to install the patch that Apple has developed
    > >(http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11559).
    > >
    > >
    > The initial Apple patch for this problem fails for a variety of machines.
    > See http://www.macintouch.com for some user reports. The patch disabled
    > TCP/IP on my iBook when using a dial-up PPP connection, so I had to remove
    > it. As of the last time I checked, afternoon Dec 29. a revised patch had
    > not appeared.
    >
    > Has anyone checked Apple's non-MacOS machines?
    
    it appears to be an issue only with open transport 2.5.2 which is only
    present in os9 and os8.6 on select machines (g4's with os 8.6 slot loading
    imacs etc).
    
    > I'm not worried much about
    > the Newton I'm writing this on, since it only goes online occasionally on
    > a dialup. But our Airport, which fronts for the iBook when it's at home,
    > is on our house LAN connected to our cable modem. Do the Airports have the
    > same problem? How about MacOS X server and Darwin?
    >
    
    airports, shouldn't, the Ibook probably will since it has os9, but it
    should be behind the airport nat.
    
    >
    > --------
    > Paul J. Schinder
    > NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    > Code 693
    > Greenbelt, MD 20770
    > schinderat_private
    >
    
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