On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 03:52:26AM -0700, kavitha reddy wrote:

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> very recently  i bought openBSD 4.2 (pack of 3CD's).Now, as a part of my

> research work iam interested to know whether it is possible to show DoS

> attacks in openBSD 4.1  .If so let me know how can that be possible.As u said

> when a patch added to openBSD 4.2 , prevents remote DoS attacks.How can this

> be tested.

A good place to begin your research would be the errata page for OpenBSD

4.1, which lists all the critical patches that were made to this

release.
http://openbsd.org/errata41.html
In particular, look carefully at all the entries that say either

"SECURITY FIX" or "RELIABILITY FIX".
I hope this helps,
-Ryan