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Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Hamelin)
Tue Jun 11 20:08:04 2013

In-Reply-To: <20130611235717.GA3395@puck.nether.net>
From: Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:07:19 -0700
To: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@latt.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Majdi S. Abbas <msa@latt.net> wrote:

>
>         I have a hard time blaming a school for this.  I have an easy
> time wondering why printer manufacturers are including chargen support
> in firmware.


Isn't that what printer do?  Generate characters?  It was in the design
spec.

/me thinks of PHB going down port list, "yep, need that one!"

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