North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: SMURF amplifier block list
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Dean Anderson wrote: > This isn't really so surprising, because 0 used to be the broadcast address > before being changed to 255. (~1986 or so, I think, right around the time > 4.3 BSD came out if I remember correctly.) Many systems still respond to 0 > as a broadcast address. Older Sun systems still default the broadcast > address to 0. It's an anachronism that could be dropped. Not surprising, but also not mentioned on NANOG until now, at least not as far as I remember. > But it is interesting that the person would have thought to use it in a > smurf attack... If they know that much, they really should have known > better than to smurf. I hope they throw the whole bookcase at them... Hopefully, we will. Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664 Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. [email protected] Mosher's Law of Software Engineering: Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
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