removed paul from the direct reply since his mailserver doesn't like uunet mail servers :) On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
smurf attacks are far from 'non-existent' today, however they are not as popular as in 1999-2000-2001.
thats interesting, i've not seen/heard of one for ages.. (guess u have a wider testing ground :)
just last week we had one... they do still happen.
In fact netscan.org still shows almost 9k networks that are 'broken'.
actually i just ran that file thro a quick awk and sort to see to what extent these networks exist..
as you can see almost all only reply two or three times, not like in the old days with >100 replies being commonplace..
Sure, but a list of 9k networks with this leve of response is still enough to do damage. It's getting better, no doubt about it but it's still a factor. --Chris (formerly chris@uu.net) ####################################################### ## UUNET Technologies, Inc. ## ## Manager ## ## Customer Router Security Engineering Team ## ## (W)703-886-3823 (C)703-338-7319 ## #######################################################