Thanks Bill. As luck would have it I had one of the affected routers in my inventory. I downloaded the latest firmware which according to the article you referenced should fix the problem.
-Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Mullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GNHLUG Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:10 PM Subject: ATTENTION: Netgear router users Here is a copy of a post made by Gary G. Taylor to various Linux news groups on Monday; if you run a Netgear router, it's worth reading, as the problems described in the post appear to be valid, AFAICT. The affected routers contain a hard-coded IP address to which they are sending SNTP packets, often as frequently as one per second, which is causing a DDOS effect on the target time server, located at the U. of Wisconsin. ======== It seems that several Netgear router models have a flaw which has caused an unintended denial of service attack on the University of Wisconsin. You can read details here: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ It is estimated that there are 700,000 affected routers, of various models, out there worldwide. If you are using a Netgear router please update your firmware to the most recent version. The Netgear product support download pages begin here: http://www.netgear.com/support/dnld_main.asp Not only is this flaw causing problems for the University of Wisconsin but it must also be using bandwidth across the entire internet, so it is in our interests to cap off this traffic as well as being good neighbours on the internet. You can also help by distributing knowledge of this flaw elsewhere, in discussion forums, newsgroups, chatrooms etc. If you know of anybody who uses a netgear router product you may consider mentioning the flaw. ======== -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend." - James Lileks _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss