Re: SMURF amplifier block list

[Ian McLaughlin <ian () okjunc junction net>]

Thank you for the heads-up.  The problem has now been fixed on our netowrk.

On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Michael Dillon wrote:

> On 13 Apr 1998, Michael Shields wrote:
>
> > Well, in the case of junction.net, there is no such forgery needed.
> >
> >     ~$ host www.memra.com
> >     www.memra.com           A       199.166.227.56
>
> I have just fired off a message to my ISP pointing him to the instructions
> for "no ip directed broadcast" so it will hopefully be fixed soon.
>
> And I'm Cc'ing his upstream provider who probably never thought of testing
> all the ?.?.?.255 addresses in their network and contacting their
> downstream customers to get directed broadcast turned off. For them I'm
> including the URLs
>
> http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi
> ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2267.txt
>
> I sure would hate to get cut off from sending mail to Karl. ;-)
>
> --
> Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
> http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael () memra com

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