ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

Tue Oct 29 20:48:39 UTC 2002

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On 10/29/2002 at 3:40 PM Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

>On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200, Petri Helenius <pete at he.iki.fi>
said:
>
>> Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit and receive
data
>> using ECHO and ECHO_REPLY packets? Why they are considered
>> harmful?
>
>Smurf.
>

Okay. What will this do to my user's ping and traceroute times, if
anything? I've got users who tend to panic if their latency hits 250ms
between here and the moon (slight exaggeration, but only slight). 

I just love it when I've got people blaming me because the 20th hop on
a traceroute starts returning  * * * instead of times. 

-- 
Jeff Shultz
Network Support Technician
Willamette Valley Internet
Not speaking for anyone but myself here.  