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3 Jul 2025 13:38:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: My own Vista impressions  
From: Darren New
Date: 15 Nov 2008 13:24:25
Message: <491f13d9@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> I recall reports of very beta versions of Vista having security bugs in the
> TCP/IP stack that had been fixed in Windows 95.

Heck, these kind of problems were found and fixed in the first TCP 
bake-offs in the early 70's. Yet, somehow, everyone who writes a TCP 
stack doesn't seem to bother to check for these things.  Ping-of-death, 
christmas tree packets, martian packets, all these are stuff people 
figured out would be problems around 1972, and published their results 
as RFCs, yet implementors seem to never learn.

How many years did Sun recommend you turn off pings at the firewall so 
nobody sent you a ping with a source address being the broadcast address?

I guess by the time it's time to write a new TCP stack, it's a new 
generation of programmers working on it.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)


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