Re: Odd DDoS, anyone else seen this?

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 variable@ednet.co.uk wrote:

Can anyone think of a reason why this sort of traffic should be routed at all? Does anyone actually drop hosts on to addresses ending in x.x.x.0?

Generally not for end-stations since end-users tend to have broken software with lousy assumptions, but I've seen and used all of the last octect for infrastructure elements, especially loopbacks and point-to-point /31s. Only problems have been in people's heads. Cheers, Joe -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE