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RFC 3514: New Bit Defined for IPv4 Headers

Posted by jamie on from the SHOULD dept.

RFC 3514 was just released, with a new bit definition for use in the headers of IP packets. Because there are important security implications, anyone coding internet services (on either the client or server end) should probably take a look.

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  1. A new bit! by Ummite · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, instead of putting new bits & bytes in my bowl, they put it in my network connexion! Wooooooo, stop that and take some beer!

  2. Guess I'll have to patch... by koehn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That SQL Server worm I've been working on. What bit was that again?

  3. Offtopic -BUT THIS SHIT IS NO JOKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HONG KONG -- Health officials announced on Monday night the biggest single-day increase in cases of a new respiratory illness, and they warned that even more cases were likely in the days to come.

    Dr. Yeoh Eng-kiong, Hong Kong's secretary of health, welfare and food, said that there had been 80 new cases, including 64 at a single apartment complex where the outbreak spread rapidly last week.

    Police officers in masks cordoned off one building in the complex early Monday morning as health care workers in full surgical gear waited at the doors to prevent residents from trying to leave without their permission before midnight April 9.

    But when health officials in protective gear went door to door Monday in the building, they found that more than half the residents had fled. Fearing that those who left might spread the disease, law-enforcement and health officials were trying to track them down.

    The apartment complex outbreak has led World Health Organization officials to focus more attention on the possibility that the illness, known as SARS, for severe acute respiratory syndrome, could be spread in a different way than close face-to-face contact. Among the possibilities: sewage, contaminated water and other objects, such as doorknobs and elevator buttons.

    The first confirmed case of the illness was reported in Australia, but the patient had already recovered and the illness has not spread, health officials said.

    The disease continued spreading in other affected hot spots, such as Singapore and Toronto.

    There have been 1,622 SARS cases reported worldwide and 58 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. There are 69 suspected cases in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

    In the Twin Cities, 3M officials advised employees to avoid unnecessary travel to Asia. The company, which has sizable operations in China and Japan, staffs the bulk of its overseas operations with foreign nationals. As a result, not many workers are expected to be affected by the travel advisory, said 3M spokesman John Cornwell.

    The Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times and staff writer Dee DePass contributed to this report.

  4. So damn uncreative by wowbagger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So damn uncreative - not the RFC, which was quite good, but the /. crew.

    I'd emailed Rob with the perfect April Fool's joke to play on the /. crowd - fake a new release of Geeks In Space, consisting of nothing but low-level ambient noise for 20 minutes followed by a loud "April Fool!" at the end.

    You all see the (absence of) result.

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