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Re: More smurf fun


From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () ibm net il>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:28:45 +0200 (IST)

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Scott Gifford wrote:

Here's the latest group of smurf-able networks.  Note some cool,
high-connectivity networks are on here, like Bay Networks.
At least one was still active on mae-west, if you can believe it.



[ ... ]

Is there any good reason I shouldn't ask my upstream network providers to
filter all packets coming in to our network with one of these source
addresses?  And is there any good reason this wouldn't very effectively
prevent us from being a Smurf target?

Thanks for any thoughts/info,

------Scott.


Cuz some of them may have been fixed by now.  

Hank




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