[Xitami] Xitami Crashing

[Brian {Hamilton Kelly}]

In message <200110050357.PAA04727@pagoda.in.naos.co.nz>
   Ewen McNeill writes:
> In message <200110031823.UAA05253@sxpublic.nxrda.imatix.net>, "Ben Ryder" writes
> :
> >I'm puzzled by whats happening to my copy of Xitami. It seems to run 
> >fine for a few hours, then whilst I'm asleep it suspends itself. When I 
> >wake up in the morning, click ok on the 'Xitami Suspended' box, it 
> >crashes.
> 
> I've noticed that one of my copies of Xitami 2.5 seems to get somewhat
> upset by various worms poking around.  I've not had a chance to track it
> down, but there may be a bug that is being tickled causing it to crash.
> (Since the worms are targeting IIS it shouldn't be getting into your
> machine that way, but all sorts of machines have been upset by all this
> probing, including apparently some printers!)

Indeed so, on that last point: AIUI, HP printers with WebAdmin
interfacing (JetDirect technology) may be affected, even if not
compromised.  Moreover, and far more significantly, the worm attacks can
cause some Cisco routers to go pear-shaped, requiring a reboot.

Sadly, the fact that hardware can be affected like this is a symptom of
the dumbing-down of computery, in that sysadmins nowadays require their
point'n'drool gooeynesses; when I wurra'lad, one configured routers with
raw telnet and TFTP.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of
    distributed ignorance.  And we know and understand less while being incr-
    easingly capable."              Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs