Dammit, sense of duty wins out over laziness. *sigh* http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi
-- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:36:41 -0600 (EST) From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Severe DOS under 2.2.1 On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: : Dear all, : : Yesterday I had the rather disconcerting happening of my machine : running a massive DOS in my abscence. I have an NE2000 card, and compiled : a 2.2.1 kernel at 00.05 on Thursday morning, then went to bed. I then got : up at about 7am, and did some ssh. I went out at 8. About 11pm, my machine : started spewing random stuff out at full wack (10Mbits per sec), causing : half the college network and a router to die. Since then, it has behaved : fine (plugged in behind another box incase it repeats), and there is : nothing in the kernel config or any logs to suggest anything : extraordinary. : : DoeS aNy Body have any ideas what might have caused this, or any more : diagnostics I could run? Sounds like a smurf attack. I'll track down the URL and send it to you if you wish - I'm at home, tired, and lazy :) (smurf is "solved" with routers, generally, so you should run the info at the URL by your admins and see if they've made the changes). -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
