It's rude, but no less then the WinNT Term server boxes on my network that
snmp sweep the subnet.
I doubt it violates any RFCs.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> Fatal it is!
>
> Jeff
>
> "David S. Miller" wrote:
> >
> > Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:23:40 -0700
> > From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com>
> >
> > I agree with this assessement, however, if the underlying IP stack
> > returns errant data, then it could cause the application to
> > malfunction, so I would not dismiss looking at what's going on in
> > the IP stack so quickly, particularly since there seem to be other
> > problems with NT servers related to this problem with ICMP
> > requests. At any rate, this is Caldera's problem, since LIZARD is
> > their installer. They have the trace and the info, and are looking
> > at it.
> >
> > Look at the trace, they ping the router and then scan the entire
> > subnet looking for a DNS server response to "auto-detect" the
> > DNS server IP address so they don't have to ask the user for
> > such details.
> >
> > I think the bug is pretty obvious, and fatal in your configuration.
> >
> > Later,
> > David S. Miller
> > davem@redhat.com
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