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authorGarrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>1997-09-14 17:46:42 +0000
committerGarrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>1997-09-14 17:46:42 +0000
commitfa48aded4c152398dfba25d4590a1ca204feddb0 (patch)
tree79a47bd91e24bc3f1b7b2530d02322d12b6e7b1d
parentbdf9cff82b643863db648070031a7eb7aae71d00 (diff)
Notes
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diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp
index 27619921a7bf..103294e1c446 100644
--- a/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp
+++ b/release/sysinstall/help/relnotes.hlp
@@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ eventual elimination thereof. The mechanism by which socket addresses
are now returned is still highly subject to change as we experiment to
discover the most efficient method.
+Responses to multicast ICMP ECHO REQUEST (``ping'') and ADDRESS MASK
+REQUEST packets can now be disabled via sysctl. The netstat program
+will print out statistics on how many times this happens.
+
+
SECURITY CHANGES:
7/29 Lots of lpr/lpd security fixes merged from OpenBSD.
@@ -137,6 +142,20 @@ fdisk(8) now numbers disk slices from 1 to 4 rather than from 0 to 3.
This brings it in line with the numbers used in the device names
in /dev.
+When operating over the network, finger(1) no longer closes the socket
+immediately after sending its request, but instead waits for the
+remote end to close first. (The specification is ambiguous, so we are
+following the behavior which interoperates with the most servers.)
+This means that it is now possible to use the MIT directory and finger
+people at certain broken Linux machines.
+
+There is a new flag to fetch(1) which allows it to talk to certain
+broken HTTP implementations which react badly to a request message
+immediately followed by a close of the connection.
+
+netstat(1) now uses sysctl(3) to retrieve more statitistics groups, and
+uses the correct, unsigned format for printing most of them out.
+
2. Supported Configurations
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