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Re: More smurf networks. FIX YOUR ROUTERS.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dalvenjah FoxFire)
Sun Jun 7 19:40:19 1998

Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 16:33:02 -0700
From: Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@dal.net>
To: John Fraizer <John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net>
Cc: Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@dal.net>, Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>,
        nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980607163757.006be170@pop3.enterzone.net>; from John Fraizer on Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 04:37:59PM -0400

On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 04:37:59PM -0400, John Fraizer put this into my mailbox:

> While you IRC people are out checking for SMURF amplifier networks, perhaps
> you should check your own:
> 
> [root@eth0-core0]:~ # ping 132.249.66.0
> PING 132.249.66.0 (132.249.66.0): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 132.249.66.6: icmp_seq=0 ttl=245 time=83.0 ms
> 64 bytes from 132.249.66.159: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=84.3 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 132.249.66.148: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=84.8 ms (DUP!)

How interesting; I thought those were fixed. I'll get right on it.

In further news, if you specifically go out and test someone's network,
how about sending them private e-mail? It's only polite, you know.

I had 300 networks to notify; you had one. Significantly easier.

-dalvenjah

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