I don't know whether the original story was -ahem- embellished a bit or not, but I do know that after forwarding this to a sysadmin friend of mine running a hos

I don't know whether the original story was -ahem- embellished a bit or not, but I do know that after forwarding this to a sysadmin friend of mine running a host of Sun boxes at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology, he got somewhat obsessed with replicating this bug - turned out on his hardware du jour the range was some 1100km (700 miles.)