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Re: Odd DDoS, anyone else seen this?

  • From: Joel Jaeggli
  • Date: Tue Nov 26 00:28:17 2002

if you have a subnet larger than /24 not using .0 and .255 gets somehwat 
wasteful...

we have observed some versions of windows having trouble connecting to 
hosts ending in .255.

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 [email protected] wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

<SNIP>

> > 
> > I've seen cable modem users have .0 ips.
> 
> DSL ports too.  I was spammed today from a Verizon DSL IP of 4.46.3.0.

if you have a subnet larger than /24 not using .0 and .255 gets somehwat  
wasteful...

we have observed some versions of windows having trouble connecting to    
hosts ending in .255.


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