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Re: New IPv4 Allocation to ARIN

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Jan 18 08:04:54 2004

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 15:03:22 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: jlewis@lewis.org
Cc: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix@techmonkeys.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401161727500.1212-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


jlewis@lewis.org wrote:

>It's those dang Nachi-sized ICMP echo/echo-replies.  We block those at all 
>our transit points and dial-up ports.  Nachi was killing our cisco 
>access-servers until we did this to stop the spread.
>
>Unfortunately, this breaks Windows tracert as it uses 92-byte echo 
>requests.  Use a "real" traceroute, and you won't see this problem.
>
>  
>
I know what they are and how to get around them. I just look down on people
dropping my packets in their backbones without reason.

Pete



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