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Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Tue Jan 12 17:09:52 1999

Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:56:06 -0500
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: Brandon Ross <bross@mindspring.net>, nanog@merit.edu

At 12:39 PM 1/12/1999 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Dean Anderson wrote:
>> And yes, some customers may in fact want or need directed broadcasts on.
>
>Leaking rfc1918 onto the public internet is not acceptable, directed
>broadcasts enabled or not.

Agreed.  We block anything sourced from rfc1918 outbound, among other things. 

		--Dean

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