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Re: SMURF amplifier block list

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Sun Apr 12 01:11:14 1998

Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 00:07:31 -0500
From: Karl Denninger  <karl@mcs.net>
To: Al Reuben <alex@nac.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980411165149.143C-100000@iago.nac.net>; from Al Reuben on Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 04:53:06PM -0400

On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 04:53:06PM -0400, Al Reuben wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
>      
> > The following networks and masks are banned from our network at the core due
> > to being smurf amplifiers.
> > 
> > I'm going to start posting the blacklist here weekly in the hopes that peer
> 
> Posting it here weekly only provides a mechanism for the littele fsckers
> that smurf to gain an up to date list of sites to bounce from.
> 

And you think they don't already HAVE the list?

Where do you think WE got it from?  From people smurfing us!  

The vandals ALREADY HAVE the list.  I know this because we were attacked
from each of those networks at least once.

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