New IPv4 Allocation to ARIN

Sun Jan 18 13:03:22 UTC 2004

jlewis at lewis.org wrote:

>It's those dang Nachi-sized ICMP echo/echo-replies.  We block those at all 
>our transit points and dial-up ports.  Nachi was killing our cisco 
>access-servers until we did this to stop the spread.
>
>Unfortunately, this breaks Windows tracert as it uses 92-byte echo 
>requests.  Use a "real" traceroute, and you won't see this problem.
>
>  
>
I know what they are and how to get around them. I just look down on people
dropping my packets in their backbones without reason.

Pete