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Blubster Traffic


From: "Piscitello, Frank" <frank () WCUPA EDU>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 21:00:11 -0400

So, our network is getting flooded with Blubster traffic.  It seems that
whenever a user does a search through Blubster, it connects via
UDP/41170 and scans local IPs and also hits 255.255.255.255.  The 255
traffic is killling the network.  Our Packeteer seems to be blocking
some of it, but not completely.

Any ideas? 

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Frank J. Piscitello, Jr.
Information Security Manager    
Office of Information Security 
Networking & Telecommunications 
West Chester University of PA 
West Chester, PA 19383 

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