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Re: Ping of Death?

To: [email protected] (James Glave)
Subject: Re: Ping of Death?
From: Eric Murray <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:17:47 -0800 (PST)
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <v02140b03aedcc334a2e2@[204.62.132.92]> from "James Glave" at Dec 17, 96 02:39:20 pm
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James Glave writes:
> 
> Anyone heard of the Ping of Death, aka the Ping Bomb. It's a large chunk of
> hostile code, disguised as a mere ping, that can lead to server rebooting.
> 

It would be quite a trick to get an OS to run code from inside
a ping packet.  Are you sure this isn't the well-known giant ping packet bug?
Receiving one or more of those can cause some hosts to reboot.

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