[16142] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMURF amplifier block list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian McLaughlin)
Mon Apr 13 18:09:18 1998
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:32:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ian McLaughlin <ian@okjunc.junction.net>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, staff@bc.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.980413032824.11482K-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
Thank you for the heads-up. The problem has now been fixed on our netowrk.
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Michael Dillon wrote:
> On 13 Apr 1998, Michael Shields wrote:
>
> > Well, in the case of junction.net, there is no such forgery needed.
> >
> > ~$ host www.memra.com
> > www.memra.com A 199.166.227.56
>
> I have just fired off a message to my ISP pointing him to the instructions
> for "no ip directed broadcast" so it will hopefully be fixed soon.
>
> And I'm Cc'ing his upstream provider who probably never thought of testing
> all the ?.?.?.255 addresses in their network and contacting their
> downstream customers to get directed broadcast turned off. For them I'm
> including the URLs
>
> http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi
> ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2267.txt
>
> I sure would hate to get cut off from sending mail to Karl. ;-)
>
> --
> Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
> http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
>
>
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