Re: serious telnet bug; is it just me?

Ben Loyall (bloyall@widomaker.com)
Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:03:37 -0400 (EDT)

>
> On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Robert Sanders wrote:
>
> > From a Unix box, telnet to your portmaster. At the login prompt,
> > escape back to the telnet command prompt (i.e. type '^]') and type
> > 'send brk'. That's it.
>
> Yep, it just rebooted my Portmaster too. I have a Portmaster 2eR with
> ten lines installed. However, it happened to me with version 3.1.2, NOT
> 3.1.3, so I do not think that downgrading will solve your problem.
>

This not only reboots my PM2e-30 on ComOS 3.1.2 but my IRX-114 on 3.0.1R.

I think the appropriate term is "not good".

Livingston?

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