[16155] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMURF amplifier block list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason L. Weisberger)
Mon Apr 13 23:20:37 1998
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:10:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Jason L. Weisberger" <jweis@softaware.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
cc: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0yOu5n-0007zWC@rip.psg.com>
> of course, the idea of blocking smurf spoof sites is pretty specious. how
> many folk will go through the effort and burden on the routers to put an
> access list in the packet path and yet not be clueful enough to just say
> 'no ip directed-broadcast' on the same damn edge router insead?
>
the same ones that'll spend an entire day discussing it.
> wait a sec. on second thought, don't answer that question.
and the ones who never read directions until its too late.
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Jason Weisberger
Chief of Network Operations
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