On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Stephen E. Shipman wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 arager @
mcgraw-hill .
com wrote:
>
> I appreciate that the intent of this procedure is honest, and meant for
> genuine expansion of knowledge. But, I am getting a good chuckle over
> seeing a procedure on the /firewalls/ list that could be interpreted as a
> denial-of-service attack by the recipient web site... ;-)
>
Aside from doing a denial of service on the recipient side. [1]
But you can also crash the proxyserver, and in the instance when
I tested it out, cause the machine to reboot. [2]
So it would be somewhat of a concern to anyone who is using a proxy
server on the firewall.
[1] Macintosh webserver can be crashed this way, especially those running
webstar.
[2] Using an SGI and Netscape Proxy 2.0
[3] You know you've been reading alt.sysadmin.recovery too much when...
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