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MSS Initiative Makes Progress

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the doctor-heal-theyself dept.

Phil writes "The MSS Initiative was started by Richard van den Berg and myself to combat sites that are broken (enable Path MTU Discovery AND block ICMP 3,4) which include such big sites as SecurityFocus and CERT (causing those behind PPPoE and other less-than-1500-MTU-protocols to be unable to view the sites). This past week we were priveleged enough to be able to present a paper at the 16th LISA Systems Administration Conference! Check out the paper and slides and be sure, like many members of the audience, to fix the sites you administer!"

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  1. People who violate the rules of RFCs are JERKS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think the arrogant jerks that violate the rules of internet RFCs should be outed or blacklisted.

    They do it becasue they hire idiot "security experts" or are angry that all OSees in history are easily exploitable remotely based on BugTraq immense database of exploits, except erhaps Mac OS 8.x and 9.x which have never been exploitable running webservers. (Mac OS X is FreeBSD based and has already had over 30 security issues remotely, though 9.22 is immune).

    PPPoe is here and now and growing EVERY DAY, as people lose the ability and right ot have static IP or long DHCP leases.

    And I think its an idiotic protocol myself, but at least it keeps people on their toes.

    HURRAY for standards. (http://www.faqs.org/ftp/rfc/rfc2516.txt )

    Boo to arrogant linux-bsd-oriented self appointed security experts.

  2. Better yet get rid of PPOE by codepunk · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Why on earth do idiots feel the need to bastardize everything. This whole thing is about PPOE not MTU size. The better solution is to get rid of the bastardization (PPOE) .

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