17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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. -- Eric Murray ericm@lne.com ericm@motorcycle.com http://www.lne.com/ericm PGP keyid:E03F65E5 fingerprint:50 B0 A2 4C 7D 86 FC 03 92 E8 AC E6 7E 27 29 AF