routin loop

Matt Crawford crawdad@fnal.gov
Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:44:47 -0600


> From ESnet it looks like I can't reach any of the FNAL hosts either,
> I tried all 4 of them that I know of. We'll follow up w/FNAL.

Yeah, well ... our entry point is/was a Sun, and there turned out to
be a gaping wide security hole in Solaris 2.X such that anyone on the
internet could become root.  Fixing that bug conflicted with IPv6, so
we're off until the v6 guys roll the bugfix into their release.

Bummer.