On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Alex P. Rudnev wrote:
- there was 3 or 4 SMURF attacks againts .PSU.EDU servers. May be, some of them was forwarded to DAL.NET because it's IRC server and all (ALL) this attacks was done to show _I am very BIG and you are NOTHING_ in IRC conversation, or _I have 10 shells in XXX.GOV and you have not_ or _My shells are better than yours_.
A lot of these people have already gone back to SYN flooding from spoofed random IPs. Kills the CPU in your router in notime. Less bandwidth is wasted though, 10-20 mbit is usually enough for them to get results. They cannot amplify it though, always something... What really should be fixed is not the smurf relays, but prohibit people from spoofing packets. Most DoS rely on your ability to send packets with a sender adress that doesnt belong on your local network. If this could be stopped we would see much less attacks and the attacks would be easier to trace. ----- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se