[14388] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: smurf, the MCI-developed tracing tools (was Re: Bogus announcement)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Sat Dec 27 18:00:51 1997
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 17:54:08 -0500
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org>
To: Darin Wayrynen <darin@good.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199712272225.PAA26174@indy.good.net>; from Darin Wayrynen on Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 03:25:11PM -0700
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 03:25:11PM -0700, Darin Wayrynen wrote:
>
> I had to modify code to parse the password file. I did not try to
> determine if this was because I wasn't using the recommended
> hardware/software platform, or because the tool was created to work
> with a MCI specific environment.
While I can't comment on this specific problem, MCI's dostracker doesn't
work if you are running DCEF. This makes dostracker useless in many
networks.
-dorian