[17987] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Smurf Amp Nets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Fri Jun 19 09:56:17 1998
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:24:07 -0500
From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
To: Vern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov>
Cc: Andrew Herdman <andrew@whine.com>, nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: <199806190516.WAA02524@daffy.ee.lbl.gov>; from Vern Paxson on Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:16:38PM -0700
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:16:38PM -0700, Vern Paxson wrote:
> > 0.0.0.0
> > 10.0.4.0
> > 127.0.0.0
> > 255.255.255.0
>
> These are pretty cool, I must say. Exactly how does the smurf attacker
> route their echo requests to them?
>
> Vern
They are straight forged packet flows.
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