On Nov 10,  6:35pm, he@uninett.no (he@uninett.no) wrote:
-- Subject: bin/28171: telnet can spin in infinite loop doing syscalls

| >Number:         28171
| >Category:       bin
| >Synopsis:       telnet can spin in infinite loop doing syscalls
| >Confidential:   no
| >Severity:       serious
| >Priority:       medium
| >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
| >State:          open
| >Class:          sw-bug
| >Submitter-Id:   net
| >Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 10 18:35:00 +0000 2004
| >Originator:     Havard Eidnes
| >Release:        NetBSD 1.6.2_STABLE
| >Organization:
| 	UNINETT AS
| >Environment:
| System: NetBSD smistad.uninett.no 1.6.2_STABLE NetBSD 1.6.2_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Wed Sep 29 12:10:04 CEST 2004 he@smistad.uninett.no:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
| Architecture: i386
| Machine: i386
| >Description:
| 	Some of our users run telnet from scripts, possibly from
| 	within expect.  Once in a while one of these telnet processes
| 	go "wild", as shown here:
| 

This has been fixed in head (deadpeer does not exist anymore).

christos