Sorcerer's Apprentice syndrome
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sorcerer-s-apprentice-syndrome-251-12546405
title:
Sorcerer's Apprentice syndrome
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Sorcerer's Apprentice syndrome (SAS) is a network protocol flaw in the original versions of TFTP. It was named after Goethe's 1797 poem "Der Zauberlehrling", because the details of its operation closely resemble the disaster that befalls the sorcerer's apprentice: the problem resulted in an ever-growing replication of every packet in the transfer. The problem occurred because of a known failure mode of the internetwork which, through a mistake on the part of the TFTP protocol designers, was not
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Network protocol flaw in the original versions of TFTP
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice_syndrome
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2024-02-15T20:43:07Z
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