Re: serious telnet bug; is it just me?

Robert Sanders (rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com)
Fri, 8 Sep 1995 11:40:32 -0400

On Fri, 8 Sep 1995 11:30:11 -0400, "Dick St.Peters" <stpeters@NetHeaven.com> said:

> There's an easy workaround: don't do that, so I wouldn't call it a
> 'severe bug', but it is there.

Well, it makes me a little nervous running an ISP on a system that any
of my customers (or random Joes on the net, including our competitors)
can crash at will. I suppose I'll just setup a telnet filter on the
PM until this gets fixed, but that makes me pretty unhappy. That's
one more set of variable I need to keep straight on every single PM.

As a rule, I regard anything that instantly reboots a vital server --
other than the "reboot" command, of course -- a rather severe bug.
But tastes vary. :-)

> Additional details: idle system at the end of a 56k link running PPP
> to a Cisco 2501.

Thanks to everyone so far for checking it on your own systems. Now if
only Livingston could make it happen...

Regards,
-- Robert