[66633] in North American Network Operators' Group
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.
>
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>
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