Re: root servers DDoS

[Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>]

sean () donelan com (Sean Donelan) writes:

> Best guess, its a smurf attack. Networks which still have ip
> directed-broadcast (or your vendor's equivalent) enabled on interfaces.
>
> Its still amazing how much traffic it can generate.

however, this attack was icmp request, not icmp reply.
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Paul Vixie