[11507] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Rhett)
Thu Jul 31 01:42:35 1997
In-Reply-To: <19970730164415.18302@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> from "Jay R. Ashworth" at "Jul 30, 97 04:44:15 pm"
To: jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us (Jay R. Ashworth)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 22:15:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joe Rhett <jrhett@ISite.Net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> .255 is _always_ a broadcast address, no?
Uh, no. If the bit mask is smaller than /24, any given .255 address could
be legitimate.
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