Re: [security] Big problem on 2.0.x? (fwd)

Dan Yocum (yocum@fnal.gov)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:14:52 -0600

> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Dan Yocum wrote:
>
> >If you want/need more, I can send it.
>
> As far as the problems are in the server I don't expect the kernel to be
> the source of the problem. Only client troubles are obviously kernel bugs.
> (in 2.0.x there's no kernel based nfs server)

Right, but still there is something going on (that I can't talk intelligently
about) between the NFS server and the kernel that produces the SYN flood
messages. Maybe there's a relation there that's causing the mountd to die as
well. I'm not intimately acquainted with the details - I just see the results.

Dan

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