From: Internaut <unde0275@frank.mtsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 09:08:13 -0800 (PST)
To: "'Igor Chudov'" <Adamsc@io-online.com>
Subject: RE: IP address
Message-ID: <01BBE040.DE540E40@s19-pm03.tnstate.campus.mci.net>
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> Adamsc wrote:
> > Igor wrote
> > > On Sun, 1 Dec 1996 22:23:30 -0600, Internaut wrote:
> > >What is the risk of publishing your dynamic IP address to a web page 
> > >while you are on line?  How vulnerable is someone just connected to > > >the internet, w/o any server running? What attacks are feasable? --> 
>> Well, if you are running Win95 (all) or 3.1 (w/certain TCP/IP stacks) your
>> machine can be locked up or rebooted at *any* time using just PING!
>Isn't is Unix that is actually vulnerable?
I tried pinging myself off and it didn't work; maby it has to be from a remote host.