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Re: More smurf fun

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Wed Mar 11 01:33:49 1998

Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:28:45 +0200 (IST)
From: Hank Nussbacher  <hank@ibm.net.il>
To: Scott Gifford <sgifford@tir.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <01bd4c75$190e63e0$f8298acd@sgifford.tir.com>

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Scott Gifford wrote:

> >Here's the latest group of smurf-able networks.  Note some cool,
> >high-connectivity networks are on here, like Bay Networks.
> >At least one was still active on mae-west, if you can believe it.
> >
> 
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> Is there any good reason I shouldn't ask my upstream network providers to
> filter all packets coming in to our network with one of these source
> addresses?  And is there any good reason this wouldn't very effectively
> prevent us from being a Smurf target?
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts/info,
> 
> ------Scott.
> 

Cuz some of them may have been fixed by now.  

Hank



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