On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Dean Anderson wrote:
This isn't really so surprising, because 0 used to be the broadcast address before being changed to 255. (~1986 or so, I think, right around the time 4.3 BSD came out if I remember correctly.) Many systems still respond to 0 as a broadcast address. Older Sun systems still default the broadcast address to 0. It's an anachronism that could be dropped.
Not surprising, but also not mentioned on NANOG until now, at least not as far as I remember.
But it is interesting that the person would have thought to use it in a smurf attack... If they know that much, they really should have known better than to smurf. I hope they throw the whole bookcase at them...
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