[21984] in North American Network Operators' Group
identify hostname
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Mon Nov 30 20:12:09 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:53:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@mindspring.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Logs recovered after a ping flood attack cut off the end of a hostname
that the perpetrator may have used in the attack. If anyone knows who
uses the following format for their dialup IP hostnames, please contact me
privately:
1Cust76.tnt1.sfo2.da.
Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664
Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. info@mindspring.com
ICQ: 2269442
Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed
broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details.
