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Re: netscan.org update
- From: Mark Milhollan - Franklin Employee
- Date: Fri Oct 13 23:23:27 2000
John Fraizer writes:
>If someone doesn't want
>people sending ICMP echo-request to their network, they need to block it
>at the borders. If they do that, even if they have amp nets inside, they
>won't be available for abuse from the outside.
Only from ICMP echo-request based DDoS', others will still be available.
They'd have to block all traffic to their broadcast addresses, which is
pretty much what ``no directed broadcast'' does anyway.
>In any case, I find scanning for SMURF amps and scanning for
>vulnerabilities to be quite different.
Can't say I agree, since in fact they are both "vulnerabilities".
This is already too damn close to the usual thread about the other
active scan for my comfort.
/mark
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