[8047] in bugtraq
Re: 1+2=3, +++ATH0=Old school DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kill9)
Mon Sep 28 03:36:17 1998
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:02:32 -0700
Reply-To: kill9 <kill9@SUCCEED.NET>
From: kill9 <kill9@SUCCEED.NET>
X-To: Brett Glass <brett@LARIAT.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199809280528.XAA25092@lariat.lariat.org>
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Brett Glass wrote:
> Today, it's rare to find a modem that responds to the attack unless there
> happens to be a long pause in the data stream after the "+++".
...
> Therefore, this DoS attack isn't a big deal. It's easily preventable,
> rarely effective, and relatively harmless (all you have to do, if it hits,
> is redial).
>
> --Brett Glass
>
I have tested this out here locally, as well as with the help from a few
other people onlin and it seems that 6 of 9 modems have been affected. I
would hardly call that 'rarely effective', relatively harmless yes, but
it seems to be a large percentage. I am interested to see more results
as too how wide spread this is.
(all tests were done using ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d host )
kill9
