Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:37:54 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Restricting ping -s and -l Message-ID: <9603260237.AA03198@coombs.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960325194516.13507Q-100000@cabal.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at Mar 25, 96 07:47:33 pm
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In some mail from Brian Tao, sie said: > > Are there any good reasons why a non-root user should need the -s > and -l options in ping? I've had problems in the past with users > starting up a dozen "ping -s 8000"'s to a foreign site, saturating our > own T1 to the net. Who needs ping -f when you can control the packet > size. :( > > I can't really think of any legitimate reason for allowing -s and > -l to unprivileged user, but before I modify the source, I figured I'd > ask around first. :) Do you stop them sending arbitary 8000 byte UDP packets ? Or is it the reurns which hurt ?
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