[53778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Odd DDoS, anyone else seen this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Tue Nov 26 10:52:54 2002
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:52:15 -0500
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0211251538370.21538-100000@rampart.argfrp.us.uu.net>
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 variable@ednet.co.uk wrote:
>
> Can anyone think of a reason why this sort of traffic should be routed at
> all? Does anyone actually drop hosts on to addresses ending in x.x.x.0?
Generally not for end-stations since end-users tend to have broken
software with lousy assumptions, but I've seen and used all of the
last octect for infrastructure elements, especially loopbacks and
point-to-point /31s. Only problems have been in people's heads.
Cheers,
Joe
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