[53060] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Oct 29 15:54:57 2002
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:54:20 -0500
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: Jeff Shultz <jeffshul@wvi.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200210291248390437.38D3B503@gateway.wvi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:48:39PM -0800, Jeff Shultz wrote:
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> On 10/29/2002 at 3:40 PM Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
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> >On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200, Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
> said:
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> >> Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit and receive
> data
> >> using ECHO and ECHO_REPLY packets? Why they are considered
> >> harmful?
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> >Smurf.
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> Okay. What will this do to my user's ping and traceroute times, if
> anything? I've got users who tend to panic if their latency hits 250ms
> between here and the moon (slight exaggeration, but only slight).
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> I just love it when I've got people blaming me because the 20th hop on
> a traceroute starts returning * * * instead of times.
that's icmp ttl expired messages.
- jared
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