From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 03:43:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 03:43:19 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:3588 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 03:43:08 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 03:47:25 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Robert Love Cc: elenstev@mesatop.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure.help: Bad URL for CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES Message-ID: <20010818034725.A11028@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Robert Love , elenstev@mesatop.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk In-Reply-To: <998117417.2184.44.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <998117417.2184.44.camel@phantasy>; from rml@tech9.net on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:50:05AM -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Love : > The provided URL for more information re SYN Cookies is bad. I > originally posted a patch to fix this in the 2.4-pre series but it was > not merged. I am reposting because I was in need of the URL and again > got stuck on the stale URL in Configure.help. > > This is against Configure.help 2.41, as in 2.4.8-ac7. OK, Steve and Alan, I've uploaded this to the CML2 page as 2.42. -- Eric S. Raymond ...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents." -- Don B. Kates, writing on statistical patterns in gun crime