SMURF amplifier block list
Ian McLaughlin
ian at okjunc.junction.net
Mon Apr 13 16:32:54 UTC 1998
Thank you for the heads-up. The problem has now been fixed on our netowrk.
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Michael Dillon wrote:
> On 13 Apr 1998, Michael Shields wrote:
>
> > Well, in the case of junction.net, there is no such forgery needed.
> >
> > ~$ host www.memra.com
> > www.memra.com A 199.166.227.56
>
> I have just fired off a message to my ISP pointing him to the instructions
> for "no ip directed broadcast" so it will hopefully be fixed soon.
>
> And I'm Cc'ing his upstream provider who probably never thought of testing
> all the ?.?.?.255 addresses in their network and contacting their
> downstream customers to get directed broadcast turned off. For them I'm
> including the URLs
>
> http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi
> ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2267.txt
>
> I sure would hate to get cut off from sending mail to Karl. ;-)
>
> --
> Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
> http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael at memra.com
>
>
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