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RE: RFC781 timestamp

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hirohisa TANIGUCHI)
Sat Jun 20 03:15:52 1998

Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 02:24:41 +0900 (JST)
From: Hirohisa TANIGUCHI <taniguti@ntttqn.tnl.ntt.co.jp>
To: <delder@graypeak.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <000101bd9b90$cca7d930$7b2fc8cf@delder.graypeak.com>

Thanks for reply;

 > If I remember correctly, that service is part of tcp-small-servers (or maybe
 > udp-smaller-servers) which most people have disabled due to the potential
 > for exploitation in DOS attacks.


I think {tcp|udp}-small-servers is for configuring "small" services like
echo,discard, and so on ...

I've seen that for many routers IP timestamp option is enabled at
least for flag = 1.

Ciao,
--
Hirohisa Taniguchi  (taniguti@ntttqn.tnl.ntt.co.jp) 


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