North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: SMURF amplifier block list - READ THIS
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 05:22:42PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > Uh, folks, blocking the broadcast address will NOT help you in the case > of a smurf POUNDING ON YOU. It will ONLY prevent your customers launching > a smurf against someone ELSE. A FAR more effective means of doing THAT is > to prohibit source address forgery on your connections. Um, Karl? That's not what we were talking about. What we were talking about was forbidding external connections to the class-C broadcast addresses on a net, and why that useful process made addressing hosts on .255 boundaries A Bad Idea. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
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