[22527] in North American Network Operators' Group
Huge smurf attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Sat Jan 9 15:23:08 1999
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:03:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@mindspring.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
We are currently seeing a smurf attack larger than any one we've ever seen
before... it looks like it's causing us over 200Mb/s of incoming
echo-reply traffic to 207.69.200.132 (our IRC server, imagine that).
Please check your networks and see if you can help us trace this attack to
the perpetrator, we'd love to prosecute if we can find them.
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.
