Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx/MSIE denial-of-service

[Wayne Buttles]

On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:

> > though viewing a file of infinite length. This has caused a modem
> > connection to drop using MSIE, and slowed a Linux system using lynx to a
> > crawl due to exhaustion of memory. Both processes were aborted before any
> > further damage was caused.
> 
> What is a file of 'infinite length'? 

ln -s /dev/zero ~/www/index.html

Hopefully no one is running -traverse -crawl unattended on a student web
server ;-)

Wayne

;
; To UNSUBSCRIBE:  Send a mail message to address@hidden
;                  with "unsubscribe lynx-dev" (without the
;                  quotation marks) on a line by itself.
;