[16358] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMURF amplifier block list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Wed Apr 22 10:46:13 1998
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:08:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@mindspring.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <v03007878b1617e47cb0d@[198.3.136.121]>
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Dean Anderson wrote:
> This isn't really so surprising, because 0 used to be the broadcast address
> before being changed to 255. (~1986 or so, I think, right around the time
> 4.3 BSD came out if I remember correctly.) Many systems still respond to 0
> as a broadcast address. Older Sun systems still default the broadcast
> address to 0. It's an anachronism that could be dropped.
Not surprising, but also not mentioned on NANOG until now, at least not as
far as I remember.
> But it is interesting that the person would have thought to use it in a
> smurf attack... If they know that much, they really should have known
> better than to smurf. I hope they throw the whole bookcase at them...
Hopefully, we will.
Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664
Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. info@mindspring.com
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