Odd DDoS, anyone else seen this?

Tue Nov 26 05:33:36 UTC 2002

if you have a subnet larger than /24 not using .0 and .255 gets somehwat 
wasteful...

we have observed some versions of windows having trouble connecting to 
hosts ending in .255.

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 jlewis at lewis.org wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

<SNIP>

> > 
> > I've seen cable modem users have .0 ips.
> 
> DSL ports too.  I was spammed today from a Verizon DSL IP of 4.46.3.0.

if you have a subnet larger than /24 not using .0 and .255 gets somehwat  
wasteful...

we have observed some versions of windows having trouble connecting to    
hosts ending in .255.

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