Re: pgm to kill 4.3 via vm

2001-05-05 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Dennis Glatting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010505 14:38] wrote: > > > > I wrote a trivial program to fill vm and found I can reliably freeze my > > system. It may not work on the first attempt, but certainly within three. > > My command line is: > > > >

RE: ISN number prediction ?

2001-05-05 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: I that was what it was, but it doesn't seem to be working now. :: Maybe it needs to know what the OS is in order to figure this out. :: When I run nmap I get :: :: No exact OS matches for host . :: :: suggesting that nmap cannot figure out any more that it is FreeBSD :: (probably becaus

Re: ISN number prediction ?

2001-05-05 Thread Jason DiCioccio
perhaps -v in combo with the -O? for example: nmap -sT -v -O -F ? - Original Message - From: "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Lauri Laupmaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 3:43 PM Subject

Re: ISN number prediction ?

2001-05-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:27:22PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Lauri Laupmaa wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > As this analysis http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html points > > out FreeBSD 4 ISN number generation 'is not impressive' It seems to be > > considerably weaker than

Re: ISN number prediction ?

2001-05-05 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Juha Saarinen wrote: > > :: I remember that if you run the program nmap on your server with the > :: right flags, that it will give its opinion on how good this is. > :: But I don't remember the right sequence of flags to do this - anyone > :: care to help me? > > -O I that was what it was, but

Re: soft update should be default

2001-05-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 09:31:09 -0700 > From: Nick Sayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That may be the original intent, but cheap IDE drives let you turn on > write caching, and they're for sure not battery-backed (nor do they > attempt to store enough power at power-off

RE: ISN number prediction ?

2001-05-05 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: I remember that if you run the program nmap on your server with the :: right flags, that it will give its opinion on how good this is. :: But I don't remember the right sequence of flags to do this - anyone :: care to help me? -O To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscrib

Re: ISN number prediction ?

2001-05-05 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Lauri Laupmaa wrote: > > Hi > > As this analysis http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html points > out FreeBSD 4 ISN number generation 'is not impressive' It seems to be > considerably weaker than linux-2.2's... > I remember that if you run the program nmap on your server with the

Re: ISN number prediction ?

2001-05-05 Thread Chris Faulhaber
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:10:41AM +0300, Lauri Laupmaa wrote: > Hi > > As this analysis http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html > points out FreeBSD 4 ISN number generation 'is not impressive' It seems > to be considerably weaker than linux-2.2's... > > Any comments about this ? >

Re: ISN number prediction ?

2001-05-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:10:41AM +0300, Lauri Laupmaa wrote: > Hi > > As this analysis http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html > points out FreeBSD 4 ISN number generation 'is not impressive' It seems > to be considerably weaker than linux-2.2's... > > Any comments about this ? R

ISN number prediction ?

2001-05-05 Thread Lauri Laupmaa
Hi As this analysis http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html points out FreeBSD 4 ISN number generation 'is not impressive' It seems to be considerably weaker than linux-2.2's... Any comments about this ? -- L. On sul minut aega ?  

Re: Freebsd 4.2 Stable

2001-05-05 Thread cornwall
Bruce, I used the netscape for Freebsd, and haven't done anything differently with freebsd version 4.2 than I did with 4.0. I didn't have any problems when downloading the latest version of netscape and gziping and installing when using 4.0, however, when doing a fresh install of 4.2 freeb

Re: soft update should be default

2001-05-05 Thread Nick Sayer
Nick Barnes wrote: > This sounds as if there isn't _any_ way for the kernel (or, better, an > application) to make sure that its bits have got written. Is that > really true? Shouldn't the man pages for fsync(1), fsync(2), and > sync(8) reflect this? sync(2) has something under "BUGS" Sur

Re: Freebsd 4.2 Stable

2001-05-05 Thread Christopher Shumway
On Sat, 5 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to get Netscape up and running on Freebsd 4.2. Each time I do > a build and try and run the program I get an error message saying "ld.so > error can't find libXt.so.6.0" Does anyone have any suggestions? Using the > same browser in Freebsd