From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 1 23:40:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA16766 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 23:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA16757 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 23:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id BAA25495; Fri, 2 May 1997 01:42:13 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma025449; Fri May 2 01:41:56 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970502014156.00abe5ac@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 01:41:56 -0500 To: jgrosch@sirius.com From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: SPAM target Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 10:14 PM 5/1/97 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: --snip-- >Not sure the Ping 'o' Death is the answer. If I remember right Linux does >not have that problem. ANY server will have a problem with a -f flag added on. --snip-- >Temping as it might be, a Ping 'o' Death attack might bring us more truble >then we want. True, but it would be neat to read about a DOS attack on CP when everone on the list combines the Ping 'o Death with the -f flag for say 24 hours or until they filter it. I'd like to see an OS/server that could take that much of a beating. Any official types care to post the number of unique users on each list? Not that anyone would do this.... without first spoofing an IP.... Did I say that? Ooops! ;-) ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990