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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Restricting ping -s and -l
To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 22:11:12 +1100 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960328221201.9279S-100000@zot.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at Mar 28, 96 10:13:22 pm
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In some mail from Brian Tao, sie said:
> 
> 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...

I do believe so.