[11793] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Aug 12 18:35:16 1997
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
To: rja@corp.home.net (Ran Atkinson)
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 15:25:44 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <970812080516.ZM20970@borg.eos.home.net> from "Ran Atkinson" at Aug 12, 97 08:05:15 am
I would suggest that interested parties follow Ran's advice,
and bitch really loudly.
- paul
>
>
> Folks who want vendors to change the default changed so that
> routers don't - by default - forward directed broadcast should
> contact their vendors. If lots of ISPs speak up,
> the vendors generally _will_ listen and make changes/fixes.
>
> I've already been leaning on cisco to do this. So far, cisco is
> indicating "limited customer demand" to change this default. Those
> others of you who are using cisco and want this change made
> should speak up to your sales folks and other contacts in cisco.
>
> Ran
> rja@home.net
>
