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Re: Odd DDoS, anyone else seen this?

  • From: bdragon
  • Date: Fri Nov 29 18:39:01 2002

> Looked just like a regular SYN flood to the target IP.  Not sure why they
> picked source addresses that were so obviously bogus though.
> 
> Can anyone think of a reason why this sort of traffic should be routed at 
> all?  Does anyone actually drop hosts on to addresses ending in x.x.x.0?

x.x.0.0 is a valid ip address for networks with bit lengths of 0 through 15.
And yes, folks do use /32 and /31 addresses which end in .0.

> Rich





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