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Re: DoS, ICMP, proxies, SYNDefender

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dima Volodin)
Fri Oct 4 15:09:18 1996

To: bass@linux.silkroad.com (Tim Bass)
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 15:03:01 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu, iepg@iepg.org
In-Reply-To: <199610041852.OAA02211@linux.silkroad.com> from "Tim Bass" at Oct 4, 96 02:52:58 pm
From: dvv@sprint.net (Dima Volodin)

Yep. Life sucks and we all die.


Dima

Tim Bass writes:
> 
> Therefore:
> 
> It does not matter what the packet *is* or the information in the
> packet, it is up to the protocol implementor(s) to 'do the
> right thing' when a packet is received.  
> 
> TCP is broken.  ICMP is broken.  It is not Phrack or 2600 that
> broke it. 
> 
> VR,
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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