On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 07:08, Carter Ames wrote: > I expect Microsoft to step up to the plate and manage > my expectations about their product, and make them > better as time goes along. Granted, we are typically > fighting things after they happen, but there's got to > be a way to create a distributed application that runs > random strings into open ports to test products. - > Take the Distributed.net concept. Instead of looking > for intelligence elsewhere in our solar system, how > about trying to look for it here on earth? (Please, > no offense to Seti, I love it) There are a number of programs that do this. (As Crispin pointed out.) The problem is usually not at the connect part of the protocol however, but deeper in the negotiation and/or communication phase. To do a proper test, you have to have a version of the protocol and throw garbage at every possible part of the transaction, not just the front end. If you are going to egg a house, you don't just hit one side of it. -- alan at clueserver.org - alan at ctrl-alt-del.com "...new-fangled and artificial treasons have been the great engines by which violent factions, the natural offspring of free government, have usually wreaked their alternate malignity on each other...." - James Madison in The Federalist No. 43,
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