[12758] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Denial of service attacks apparently from UUNET Netblocks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Frankenberger)
Wed Oct 8 00:02:56 1997
From: Brett Frankenberger <brettf@netcom.com>
To: jshaw@insync.net (Joe Shaw)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:03:15 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971007090255.22676A-100000@vellocet.insync.net> from "Joe Shaw" at Oct 7, 97 09:21:32 am
:: Joe Shaw writes ::
>
> Although this is all true, it still doesn't explain the fact that UUNet is
> allowing broadcast packets through their network. One would think that
> with the recent increase in broadcast DoS attacks, that UUNet would have
> taken a much more proactive stance.
167.132.194.255 is not a broadcast address.
167.132.2.15 is a broadcast address.
How would you expect UUNet to know that?
- Brett (brettf@netcom.com)
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