On 13 Apr 1998, Michael Shields wrote:
Well, in the case of junction.net, there is no such forgery needed.
~$ host www.memra.com www.memra.com A 199.166.227.56
I have just fired off a message to my ISP pointing him to the instructions for "no ip directed broadcast" so it will hopefully be fixed soon. And I'm Cc'ing his upstream provider who probably never thought of testing all the ?.?.?.255 addresses in their network and contacting their downstream customers to get directed broadcast turned off. For them I'm including the URLs http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2267.txt I sure would hate to get cut off from sending mail to Karl. ;-) -- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com