On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Network Administrator wrote:
The following network numbers were pulled from a program called "smurf".
As I feared would happen, there seem to be multiple versions of smurf out with different amplifier network lists. FDT was smurfed for about an hour last night, and of the list of broadcast addresses posted very few were used in last night's attack...and a large number of the nets used were not in the posted list. Some of the more heavily populated (and thus nastier) amplification nets used last night follow. If you're on this list, PLEASE FIX YOUR ROUTERS. If you're using Cisco's, its probably as simple as adding "no ip directed-broadcast" to the ethernet interfaces on your routers. Also, what's the deal with Internic allowing registrations with things like nomailbox@NOWHERE? That's an incredibly useful contact. If Kent Percival is in charge of a university's network, surely he has an email address. Maybe it's time for a smurf amplifier blackhole list. If you're used as a smurf amplifier, you get BGP blackholed for say 6 hours, and on each subsequent occurance, the time doubles. I bet that would fix the problem real fast. [85 hosts responding] SURAnet (NET-MAE-EAST) 8400 Baltimore Boulevard College Park, MD 20740 Netname: MAE-EAST Netnumber: 192.41.177.0 Coordinator: SURAnet (SURA-NOC) noc@sura.net hostmaster@sura.net (301) 982-3214 [24 hosts responding] CNet (NETBLK-NETBLK-CNET) 150 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94111 US Netname: NETBLK-CNET Netblock: 204.162.80.0 - 204.162.87.0 Maintainer: RGN Coordinator: Emery, Ken (KE53) ken@CNET.COM (415) 395-7805 x569 [32 hosts responding] Internet Communications of America (NETBLK-UU-208-202-14) 1020 N.W. 163rd Drive Miami, FL 33169 US Netname: UU-208-202-14 Netblock: 208.202.14.0 - 208.202.15.255 Coordinator: Neptune, Mark (MN182) postmaster@ICANET.NET 305-621-9200 [21 hosts responding] LI Net Inc. (NET-LI-NET) 45 Manor Rd. Smithtown, NY 11787 US Netname: LI-NET Netnumber: 199.171.6.0 Maintainer: LI Coordinator: Reilly, Michael (MR113) mpr@LI.NET 516-265-0997 Alternate Contact: Harris, Jon (JH201) jon@LI.NET 516-265-0997 [29 hosts responding] University of Guelph (NET-UOGUELPH) Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 CANADA Netname: UOGUELPH Netnumber: 131.104.0.0 Coordinator: Percival, Kent (KP50) nomailbox@NOWHERE +1 (519) 824-4120 ext. 6397 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <jlewis@fdt.net> | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/message. Florida Digital Turnpike | ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____