Huge smurf attack

Phil Howard phil at whistler.intur.net
Sun Jan 10 04:17:46 UTC 1999


Brandon Ross wrote:

> ftp://ftp.mindspring.net/users/bross/smurfsources

I find it slightly interesting that some private addresses were in the
list.  There were some addresses in 10/8, 172.16/12, and 192.168/16.
Thus the source of the attack must have had some addresses in these
private network ranges reachable somehow, either internally in the
network the attacker(s) originate, or routes leaking onto the internet.
If the former, that would mean they had the capacity from that internal
network to carry the forged echo requests as well as those private
sourced echo replies.

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