[31506] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: netscan.org update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Tue Sep 26 13:01:49 2000
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From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@MHSC.com>
To: Troy Davis <troy@nack.net>,
"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@MHSC.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:58:57 -0700
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> From: Troy Davis [mailto:troy@nack.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:49 AM
>
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer <rmeyer@MHSC.com> wrote:
>
> > I know that all of you are aware of this. Granted, each subsequently
> > smaller subnet also limits the maximum number of hosts that
> will respond
> > to the smurf trigger. The point is that, the web-site ONLY
> tests 0 and
>
> Actually, that's often not the case. Through NAT and other modern
> marvels, it's possible to have massively overpopulated netblocks that
> all respond. The largest amplifier we've found yet was 170,000x (on
> a class C).
Thank you Troy, However my point remains.
