[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-01-12, ultr... at gmail.com <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> if what you say is true you can thank the introduction of the c language
> into the OS level development.

This has nothing to do with C. Much of VMS was originally written
in Macro-32 and BLISS.

And BTW, the descriptors and counted strings that VMS uses are
harder to compromise but easier than C-style null terminated
strings to actually exploit when compromised.

This is because embedded nulls in the shellcode are treated as just
another data byte when using descriptors and counted strings and do
not terminate a copy when encountered, unlike with C-style null
terminated strings.

Simon.

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