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Re: Anyone seeing ping corruption?


From: Steven Champeon <schampeo () hesketh com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 22:45:06 +0000

on Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 04:50:00PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
Assuming (not confirmed) mitigating old-style DOS attacks.  See
"ping of death."

Are there even enough dialup connections and ancient modems left that POD
is a thing anyone needs to worry about? I mean, yeah, I enjoyed knocking
spammer idiots offline with that but it's been twenty years or more since
I had that uniquely weird pleasure. 

n.b.: alias pod='ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d -c 5'

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