> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 02:18:09 -0500 (EST) > From: der Mouse <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [funsec] DoS help > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >>> about two hours of it in the afternoon (I've never experienced where >>> it hit the whole damn thing X.X.X.255) > >> [...] I'll bite just in case someone who actually has this problem >> runs into the thread on Google; > >> Above scenario is indicative of a network being an intermediary in a >> UDP broadcast amplification attack, i.e. fraggle. > > ...and, in most cases, a suitable defense is to make sure that the > router(s) into that broadcast domain don't forward directed broadcast > traffic, ie, traffic which is not a broadcast on the network the router > receives it on but is a broadcast on the network it would otherwise be > sent to. (Most networks have no use for such traffic and most routers > can be configured this way; indeed, I think some can't be made to > behave any other way.) > > /~\ The ASCII Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML [email protected] > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B > >
"don't forwared". the shitty part here is SBC has the cisco internet access router. I can't do crap. and now they tell me I have to talk to them about a threat management service. -- been great, thanks RandyM a.k.a System _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
