[15607] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More smurf fun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ing. Alejandro Perea Mejia)
Wed Mar 11 16:55:25 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:40:36 -0600 (CST)
From: "Ing. Alejandro Perea Mejia" <alex@noc.unam.mx>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
cc: Scott Gifford <sgifford@tir.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.980311082704.59162C-100000@max.ibm.net.il>
Hi all,
> > >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?
>
> Cuz some of them may have been fixed by now.
I'm agree, one of that networks -at least- is now protected [132.248.0.0] so
you don't need to filter packets coming from the nets on the list.
Greetings,
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