[12144] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: smurf's attack...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Bergum)
Fri Sep 5 17:55:00 1997
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:36:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dave Bergum <bergum@MR.Net>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, "Jordyn A. Buchanan" <jordyn@bestweb.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19970905161148.28952@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
>>>>> On Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:11:48 -0400, "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> said:
Jay> On Fri, Sep 05, 1997 at 12:55:00PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
>> > access-list XXX deny ip any 0.0.0.255 255.255.255.0
>>
>> You must be kidding. Why not
>>
>> access-list XXX deny ip any 0.0.0.42 255.255.255.0
Jay> In your usual, inimitable, "everyone ought to understand my comment"
Jay> style, Randy.
Jay> Because ".255" is very often (I'm tempted to say "almost always" a
Jay> broadcast address, and ".42" never is. (I haven't run the numbers, but
Jay> I'm fairly certain that .42 is not the broadcast address of any size
Jay> network.)
But 42 is the ultimate answer to life, the Universe and Everything!
