From fa48aded4c152398dfba25d4590a1ca204feddb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Garrett Wollman Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 17:46:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the multicast ping fix and changes to finger, fetch, and netstat. --- release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp index 27619921a7bf..103294e1c446 100644 --- a/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp +++ b/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp @@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ eventual elimination thereof. The mechanism by which socket addresses are now returned is still highly subject to change as we experiment to discover the most efficient method. +Responses to multicast ICMP ECHO REQUEST (``ping'') and ADDRESS MASK +REQUEST packets can now be disabled via sysctl. The netstat program +will print out statistics on how many times this happens. + + SECURITY CHANGES: 7/29 Lots of lpr/lpd security fixes merged from OpenBSD. @@ -137,6 +142,20 @@ fdisk(8) now numbers disk slices from 1 to 4 rather than from 0 to 3. This brings it in line with the numbers used in the device names in /dev. +When operating over the network, finger(1) no longer closes the socket +immediately after sending its request, but instead waits for the +remote end to close first. (The specification is ambiguous, so we are +following the behavior which interoperates with the most servers.) +This means that it is now possible to use the MIT directory and finger +people at certain broken Linux machines. + +There is a new flag to fetch(1) which allows it to talk to certain +broken HTTP implementations which react badly to a request message +immediately followed by a close of the connection. + +netstat(1) now uses sysctl(3) to retrieve more statitistics groups, and +uses the correct, unsigned format for printing most of them out. + 2. Supported Configurations ---------------------------