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Apple's OS 9 Fix Creates New Problems 28
ocipio was the first to write "Though many people who impressed by Apple's quick response to fix a problem in the OS 9's Open Transport protocol. Apple released OS Tuner 1.0 which when applied causes connectivity problems. An Apple spokesman said that the patch was only intended for people in a specific situation. The spokesman also said that the bug patch and the need to restart their machines after changing TCP/IP settings only applies to those with high-speed Internet connects. I guess no one in western Michigan needs to worry. The article on ZDNet can be found here." jimjag adds: I can confirm this behavior on a brand spanking new iBook and iMac DV. Unless you change your TCP/IP settings a lot, it's no real big deal, but for some IBook users, it might be a pain.
Bad for adoption of security patches (Score:3)
O T Tuner works for me.. (Score:4)
Macnn.com described an interesting alternative fix that might offer more control for TCP/IP internals:
"Included on the Mac OS 9 CD-ROM is a TCP/IP Extras Folder, inside is a control panel named TCP/IP
Options. This panel includes several options to modify several switches within Open Transport INCLUDING
Disable IP Path MTU Discovery which is the mechanism that the DoS attack uses. I have successfully used
the TCP/IP Options control panel on my OS 9 machine for several days now. My assumption is that the OT
Tuner extension does the same thing, but the control panel may be a cleaner alternative."
problems.... (Score:1)
More help from Microsoft (Score:1)
Re:O T Tuner works for me.. (Score:1)
Forget the patch (Score:2)
Another MacOS DoS Attack? (Score:1)
[whole.net]
http://the.whole.net/~pheh/os9dumper.html
Re:problems.... (Score:1)
You're only open to use as part of an unintentional DoS if you're connected over an ethernet network - usually with DSL or cable modem.
=tkk
Re:Another MacOS DoS Attack? (Score:1)
Re:THE OT TUNER PATCH IS NOT FLAWED (Score:1)
As far as I can gather, this patch prevents AirPort connections to a basestation from working properly, which many people use to connect their DSL or cable modems, both of which WOULD be potential weaknesses for DoS attacks.
This is a problem. (Score:1)
I maintain several different networking profiles on my iBook - one for home network to my Linux machine, one for my work network, and one for dialup. I switch between them all quite often, and it's a real pain to have to reboot just to force the network settings to take effect.
I don't know about other machines, but Apple has piled so much cruft into the MacOS installed on iBooks that it takes the machines forever to come up. Having to reboot just to force a switch is stupid.
What's going to happen here is the same thing that happens with open spam relays - reconfiguring Sendmail is a pain, so people don't bother with it, and so we have lots of more open relays.
This 'patch' causes problems, and people don't want to deal with it -- so they'll just take it right off their machine and so there'll still be the same amount of insecure machines, regardless of whether or not there's a patch.
OK, Mac OS 9 is a crap. (Score:1)
Screw the patch (Score:1)
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