[31472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: netscan.org update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Sun Sep 24 23:06:54 2000
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:05:06 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Once upon a time, Bennett Todd <bet@rahul.net> said:
> Being a smurf amplifier will never be known to customers of most
> organizations; and even if they heard, they wouldn't understand what
> it meant. So it doesn't generate the rabid hatred.
When we were smurfed, we had a couple of the amplifiers complain to
_us_! The pings triggered their firewall software or something and they
called us to complain about the "attack" originating from our network.
--
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Information Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
