Re: The Ping Denial of Service bug on almost all Unixes

[blh () nol net (Brett L. Hawn)]

it'll work just dandy past a router, we tested on several machines more than
15 hops away through several routers, they bombed out.

On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, The Ghost who Admins wrote:

> I called Apple Network Server support on this issue becuase ANS machines
> run AIX 4.1.4 (apples version of it, but still AIX). AIX 4.1.4 is
> susceptable as has been noted here (even on the ANS server). One thing the
> Apple guys said to see if happens is if the attack can be performed
> outside a router, or via a router. Since I don't have a machine that is
> past a router of any kind, I wanted to see if anyone on the list has had a
> chance to attack a machine past a router, and whether it works or not.
> The theory is that the router will kill the oversized packets.
>
> Thanks for your time :)
>
> Go Devils! Fork the Cardinal!
>
> Mike Evans
> <mevans () inficad com>

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