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Mention the multicast ping fix and changes to finger, fetch, and netstat.

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Garrett Wollman 1997-09-14 17:46:42 +00:00
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@ -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
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