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RE: netscan.org update

  • From: Roeland M.J. Meyer
  • Date: Tue Sep 26 13:03:38 2000 
> From: Troy Davis [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:49 AM
> 
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I know that all of you are aware of this. Granted, each subsequently
> > smaller subnet also limits the maximum number of hosts that 
> will respond
> > to the smurf trigger. The point is that, the web-site ONLY 
> tests 0 and
> 
> Actually, that's often not the case.  Through NAT and other modern
> marvels, it's possible to have massively overpopulated netblocks that
> all respond.  The largest amplifier we've found yet was 170,000x (on 
> a class C).

Thank you Troy, However my point remains.