[67792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: routing invalid IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Knoblauch)
Sat Feb 21 21:19:12 2004
From: "Brian Knoblauch" <bknoblauch@sscorp.com>
To: "Geo." <georger@getinfo.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:18:16 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Anyway, I'm currently investigating to see if it's possible the traffic
was
> coming from another local machine. The machine's admin mentioned a few
> things that sounded to me like there were 2 way connections from this IP
> involved instead of just spoofed UDP.
Anybody hook up a new Macintosh lately? OS X seems to spew traffic in
that range. It appears to be some optional component as they don't all do
it, about half of ours do it. I haven't cared enough to track down what
exactly is doing it.
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