matt@oddjob.UUCP (Java Man) (04/14/88)
Under Ultrix 2.0, users cannot telnet into our microvax from a host with a long name. The process telnetd.gw core dumps. From adb I can see that the source hostname kepler.yerkes.uchicago.edu was strcpy()d into a 24 byte buffer and hence clobbered the next variable. Strangely enough, editing /etc/hosts to call the remote host simply "kepler" doesn't work either. Telnetd.gw doesn't core dump, but it does die with a signal after printing its hostname but before "login:" is printed. I don't understand this at all! We bought updates, but 2.2 hasn't come yet, and I don't know if a new release of decnet/ultrix comes along with it. Does anyone know if this bug will be fixed? Matt Crawford