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John Fraizer writes: >If someone doesn't want >people sending ICMP echo-request to their network, they need to block it >at the borders. If they do that, even if they have amp nets inside, they >won't be available for abuse from the outside. Only from ICMP echo-request based DDoS', others will still be available. They'd have to block all traffic to their broadcast addresses, which is pretty much what ``no directed broadcast'' does anyway. >In any case, I find scanning for SMURF amps and scanning for >vulnerabilities to be quite different. Can't say I agree, since in fact they are both "vulnerabilities". This is already too damn close to the usual thread about the other active scan for my comfort. /mark
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