[4290] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: pinging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex F)
Fri Feb 7 17:04:14 1997
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 14:14:13 -0500
To: Gaddy Gumbao <succesor@mnl.sequel.net>
From: Alex F <alexf@iss.net>
Cc: WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
At 04:39 PM 2/7/97 +0800, Gaddy Gumbao wrote:
>Hi there all,
>
> Can a ping makes your router or server down? How?
> Thanks .
>
Yes. Ping bomb can. THis is an illegaly sizes ping packet, and it can
cause problems with some machines, causing them to go down or reboot. Ping
Flood can send so much traffic to your site that the router might as well be
down (provided your pipe is bigger than the other guys).
Alex F
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