Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck Nether net>]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:48:39PM -0800, Jeff Shultz wrote:
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> On 10/29/2002 at 3:40 PM Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
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> > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200, Petri Helenius <pete () 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. 

        that's icmp ttl expired messages.

        - jared


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