removed paul from the direct reply since his mailserver doesn't like uunet mail servers :)
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > smurf attacks are far from 'non-existent' today, however they are not as > > popular as in 1999-2000-2001. > > thats interesting, i've not seen/heard of one for ages.. (guess u have a wider > testing ground :) > just last week we had one... they do still happen. > > In fact netscan.org still shows almost 9k networks that are 'broken'. > > actually i just ran that file thro a quick awk and sort to see to what extent > these networks exist.. > > as you can see almost all only reply two or three times, not like in the old > days with >100 replies being commonplace.. > Sure, but a list of 9k networks with this leve of response is still enough to do damage. It's getting better, no doubt about it but it's still a factor. --Chris (formerly [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ####################################################### ## UUNET Technologies, Inc. ## ## Manager ## ## Customer Router Security Engineering Team ## ## (W)703-886-3823 (C)703-338-7319 ## #######################################################