[11799] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Barrett)
Wed Aug 13 06:56:26 1997
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:45:26 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Alan Barrett <apb@iafrica.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <970812080516.ZM20970@borg.eos.home.net>
Ran Atkinson <rja@corp.home.net> said:
> 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.
How do you know it's a directed broadcast if it's not for a connected
subnet? Yes, you can make some guesses, but I am not convinced that
that's a good idea.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
