Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome (SAS) is a particularly bad network protocol flaw, discovered in the original versions of TFTP. It was named after the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of the animated film Fantasia, 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 taken into account when the protocol was designed; the failure mode interacted with several details of the mechanisms of TFTP to produce SAS.
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