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Re: operational: icmp echo out of control?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Tue May 28 17:31:34 2002

From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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[ On Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 19:17:32 (+0000), E.B. Dreger wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: operational:  icmp echo out of control?
>
> RAS> be mistaken for a port scan. But for so many network admins,
> RAS> all they know is "ICMP bad".
> 
> That'll be the day when someone calls abuse saying "I'm being
> attacked by ICMP unreachables!" ;-)

You mean that hasn't happened to you yet?  Where have you been?  :-)

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