:ping: [from the TCP/IP acronym `Packet INternet Groper', prob.
originally contrived to match the submariners' term for a sonar
pulse] n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO)
sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of
another (the UNIX command `ping(8)' can be used to do this).
originally contrived to match the submariners' term for a sonar
pulse] n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO)
sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of
another (the UNIX command `ping(8)' can be used to do this).
Related:
- ping
[from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP... - Ping O' Death n.
A notorious exploit that (when
first discovered) could be easily used to crash a wide variety of
machines by overunning size limits in their TCP/IP stacks.
First revealed in late 1996. The open-source Unix... - exploit n.
[originally cracker slang] 1. A vulnerability
in software that can be used for breaking security or otherwise
attacking an Internet host over the network.
The Ping O' Death is a famous exploit. exploits... - ping storm n.
A form of DoS attack consisting
of a flood of ping requests (normally used to check network
conditions) designed to disrupt the normal activity of a system.
This act is sometimes called `ping lashing' or `ping... - martian n.
A packet sent on a TCP/IP network with a source
address of the test loopback interface [127.0.0.1].
This means that it will come back labeled with a... - TCP/IP /T'C-P I'P/ n.
1. [Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol] The wide-area-networking protocol that
makes the Internet work,
and the only one most hackers can speak the name... - martian: n. A packet sent on a TCP/IP network with a source
address of the test loopback interface [127.0.0.1].
This means that it will come back labeled with a... - exec /eg-zek'/ or /eks'ek/ vt., n.
1. [Unix: from
`execute'] Synonym for chain,
derives from the exec(2) call. 2. [from `executive']... - exec: /eg-zek'/ vt., n. 1. [UNIX: from `execute'] Synonym for
{chain},
derives from the `exec(2)' call. 2. [from `executive']...
From the same category:
- I shan't
elaborate... - It is too dangerous, you must not go alone.
Hey, I'm your cha'DIch.
Worf and Picard, "Sins of the Father", stardate 43685... - Adam to Eve: "Do you still love me?" Eve to Adam:
"Who else?" (Original Joke involves same folks as... - One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned
at the stake while the votes were being counted.
Thomas B.... - SMILEY
:<)= for those with
beards...
