[83049] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traffic to our customer's address(126.0.0.0/8) seems blocked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marlon Borba)
Wed Aug 3 16:06:13 2005
From: Marlon Borba <mborba@trf3.gov.br>
Reply-To: mborba@trf3.gov.br
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200508031900.j73J0OQ9003989@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:05:39 -0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Em Qua, 2005-08-03 ās 15:00 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu escreveu:
> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:52:55 -1000, Randy Bush said:
> >
> > > You can ping to 126.66.0.30/8.
> >
> > and how does one ping a /8?
>
> Smurf. 'ping 126.255.255.255'.
>
> How quickly they forget. :)
just remember that not all networks use '126.255.255.255' as a broadcast
address. there are non-broadcast networks where that address is a 'host'
one.
[]s,
Marlon, CISSP.
