[OpenAFS] Re: Attacks against AFS lead to crashing machines

[Nathan Neulinger]

Do you have any idea which of the commands might be causing the
failure/crash?

On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 16:42, Jimmy Engelbrecht wrote:
> Erwin Broschinski <broschi@id.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> > We could see a dozen servers (Solaris 2.6) rebooting for hours this morning!
> > Our AFS cell was blocked. This was a malicious attack and I cannot believe that
> > someone  from Usenix is officially responsible and will present this beside
> > free pizza and soda on the next AFS workshop.
> > The answer from KTH-IRT looks like a bad joke!
> 
> I am very sorry that my "afscrawler" caused you problems. We had no
> malicious intent by using a documented AFS call nor could we imagine that
> this would cause you so much grief.
> 
> KTH-IRT response was absolutely correct, the data collected will be
> presented at the AFS-workshop at USENIX02.
> 
> Neither USENIX as organisation nor the organizers of the AFS-Workshop are
> responsible for my activities.
> 
> > What's this 'afscrawler' anyhow? 
> 
> Its 300 lines of perl written by me, using standard AFS-commands, like vos,
> bos, rxdebug, udebug e.t.c.
> 
> /Jimmy Engelbrecht, Systems Engineer, Royal Institute of Technology
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