Search Again: Re: Danger?? From: Fabrizio Carioni Date: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 Time: 9:56:00 am > Our engineers are working on this problem. > > I've seen the log Fabrizio sent in to our support department. I have a > hunch that the other server essentially flooded the machine - it's a Quadra > 700, and it got (by my rough estimate) 15 or more responses per second. > This is sort of like flood-pinging a Mac; either the Ethernet driver, the > Open Transport TCP/IP stack, or the server application probably got > overloaded with packets. > > The fact that the server even managed to log that many responses, given > that I believe it was more packets per second than QuickDNS can actually > handle simultaneously, is pretty impressive - especially on a Quadra 700. > > Take all of the above, after the first line of my response, as my opinion, > instead of as official company response. Until we can reproduce the problem > in-house, we can't properly diagnose it. > > Therefore, there may be a danger here, if you're using a 68K Mac with > System 7.5.5, or even on some faster machines. As I say, we can't yet > reproduce the problem. > ____________________________________________________________________ > Chris Buxton Men & Mice > cbuxton@menandmice.com http://www.menandmice.com > If I can be of any help, if you need any details on my configuration or anything else, just email me. Sincerely -- =========================================================================== Fabrizio Carioni Voice +39-2-29536416 Bitlevel srl Fax +39-2-29527977 P.le Lavater, 5 Email fabrizio@bitlevel.com 20129 Milano Italy URL http://www.bitlevel.com/ ===========================================================================

Messages In This Thread: Danger?? by webmaster on Sep 21, 1999 at 9:14:00 am Danger?? by webmaster on Sep 22, 1999 at 7:18:00 am Re: Danger?? by Men & Mice Support on Sep 22, 1999 at 9:26:00 am Re: Danger?? by Fabrizio Carioni on Sep 22, 1999 at 9:56:00 am