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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:00:06 -0500, [email protected] wrote, > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:48:39 PST, Jeff Shultz said: > > > >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. > > So you rate limit it to several/second or something appropriate for the normal > traffic levels. You don't allow ping/traceroute to broadcast addresses. On the classless Internet, how does any router know what is or is not a broadcast address when the final destination is not local? -- Crist J. Clark | [email protected] | [email protected] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | [email protected]
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