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Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

  • From: Jared Mauch
  • Date: Tue Oct 29 15:56:24 2002 
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:48:39PM -0800, Jeff Shultz wrote:
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> On 10/29/2002 at 3:40 PM [email protected] wrote:
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> >On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200, Petri Helenius <[email protected]>
> said:
> >
> >> Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit and receive
> data
> >> using ECHO and ECHO_REPLY packets? Why they are considered
> >> harmful?
> >
> >Smurf.
> >
> 
> Okay. What will this do to my user's ping and traceroute times, if
> anything? I've got users who tend to panic if their latency hits 250ms
> between here and the moon (slight exaggeration, but only slight). 
> 
> I just love it when I've got people blaming me because the 20th hop on
> a traceroute starts returning  * * * instead of times. 

	that's icmp ttl expired messages.

	- jared


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