[nanog] Broadcast pings.

Mon Dec 22 20:00:20 UTC 1997

Yes we see a lot of broadcast pings, one network after the next in
sequential order through CIDR blocks. Fun. Probably 5-10 attacks/day.

On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Jamie Scheinblum wrote:

> Has anyone seen an increase of broadcast pings, where the source route
> appears to be from a nameserver?
> 
> We took a look through our access-list logs, and it seems all of the
> attempted attacks during the last few days have had an IP-source of a
> nameserver.
> 
> Just thought it was curious.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jamie Scheinblum - FASTNET(tm) / You Tools Corporation
> jamie at fast.net (610)954-5200 http://www.fast.net/
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