Kristian Hermansen wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 15:04 +1200, Nick FitzGerald wrote: > > This has been known since Adam was a cowboy.
He's right, you know. > Although I don't believe that your claim is unlikely, it would have been > nice to post a link to the original discovery to back it up. This is just foolishness. > Everyone > that I have showed this to, personally, has not seen it before. And, > after some google searching, I could not locate anyone else either that > talked about this -- the closest thing was an old Microsoft telnet > advisory that didn't mention this behavior specifically. Link? Why would there be a "link" to show where the "original advisory" was? You have just got to be kidding. > With that said, I would like to ask anyone who has info about the > original discovery to please post it here (Nick didn't respond to my > email). I am interested to know more about it, and maybe the original > discoverer found other things as well...thanks Original discovery??? Don't you work for Cisco? Try either the Stevenson or Doug Comer 3-volume set on networking. That'd probably help. I realize that there seem to be a *whole* bunch of folk that feel that FD is a playground and learning environment. For those of us actually looking at it as an early warning system, think of Nick as being a vocal representative of the majority of more senior security people on the list. Please, if your objective is to learn about the basics, do it *elsewhere*. -- The command line is useful for people who like to communicate with their computers with a *language*, GUIs are for people who like to to communicate by *pointing and grunting* So who's the Neanderthal? (J. J. Green) _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/