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Bugtraq archives for 3rd quarter (Jul-Sep) 1998: Re: Sun libnsl lameness

Re: Sun libnsl lameness

Edward Lewis EDU SE Nashville (Edward.LewisEast.Sun.COM)
Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:20:38 -0500 

The latest patch roll-out fixing this problem is for Solaris 2.6, patch ID is
105401-14, dated 6 July.  It, and 103612-41 for Solaris 2.5.1 can be found at:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/pubpatches/patches.html

The current patch list for this problem by OS is below.
If anyone can verify that these patches DO NOT fix the problem,
post it and let's see if we can get it taken care of.

    SunOS 5.6           105401-14
    SunOS 5.6_x86       105402-13
    SunOS 5.5.1         103612-41
    SunOS 5.5.1_x86     103613-41
    SunOS 5.5           103187-38
    SunOS 5.5_x86       103188-38
    SunOS 5.4           101973-35
    SunOS 5.4_x86       101974-35
    SunOS 5.3           101318-91       (to be released in 12 weeks)


Regards....

E. Lewis
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> Approved-By: aleph1DFW.NET
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:37:18 +1000
> From: mibDEAKIN.EDU.AU
> Subject: Re: Sun libnsl lameness
> To: BUGTRAQNETSPACE.ORG
>
> Allanah Myles writes:
> > This is another perfect example of why Sun should go back into the
> > hardware design and architecture business, and get OUT of the
> > OS/software business.  Leave software design to real software
> > designers.
>
> If anyone had actually bothered to look at Sunsolve or call Sun support
> before jumping to rash conclusions they would have realised that Sun
> actually fixed these problems some time in June - long before "George
> Clooney" posted his diatribe on July 1st.
>
> The only patch I have first hand knowledge of is the 2.5.1 patch, which
> is 103612-41, but Sun assure me that similar patches are available for
> other releases.
>
> Please, can we have some rational thought on bugtraq?
>
> regards
>
>  - Mike
>
> --
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