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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.cuhk.edu.hk!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Hanover.Germany.EU.net!Hamburg.Germany.EU.net!nuki.NetUSE.de!tpki.toppoint.de!rimki.toppoint.de!chrimek Date: 28 Feb 1996 01:03:00 +0100 From: chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Message-ID: <63jRpNioo$B@rimki.toppoint.de> Subject: What's wrong with telnet ? X-Newsreader: CrossPoint v3.1 R/C6513 Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V. Reply-To: chrimek@toppoint.de Lines: 17 Hello Two days ago I noticed an unregular reboot of a computer that mainly serves as our departments' mailserver. The last command output said that a non-privileged user had logged in, done something and about 12 minutes later the machine crashed.... and rebooted to normal operation. I asked the guy about the things he had done, and he said he was trying to telnet to another machine. He had started telnet with no arguments and then entered a few characters and that must have crashed the machine. So, is the telnet code buggy, or what could have happened? -cr -- Christoph Rimek, Kiel, Germany (+49 431 57601) chrimek@toppoint.de