From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 28 19:17:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA04038 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:17:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from zot.io.org (root@zot.io.org [198.133.36.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA04033 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:17:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from taob@localhost) by zot.io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA23108; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 22:13:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 22:13:22 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: Darren Reed cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Restricting ping -s and -l In-Reply-To: <9603260237.AA03198@coombs.anu.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Darren Reed wrote: > > Do you stop them sending arbitary 8000 byte UDP packets ? Well, I've stopped them from using /sbin/ping as a way of sending huge UDP datagrams. That will probably discourage 99% of the trouble- makers out there. > Or is it the reurns which hurt ? Does the return ping also generate 8000 bytes? Sheesh... -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) System and Network Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"