Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-14 Thread Art Sackett
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:39:41PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:13:07PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > > Maybe he means ping floods? Pings of death usually will crash a > > box after a few packets hit it. As you said Debian is good about > > those kinds of things. > >

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-14 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:13:07PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > Maybe he means ping floods? Pings of death usually will crash a > box after a few packets hit it. As you said Debian is good about > those kinds of things. Are these things just malformed packets / frames sent to some machine or

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-14 Thread Art Sackett
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:39:41PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:13:07PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > > Maybe he means ping floods? Pings of death usually will crash a > > box after a few packets hit it. As you said Debian is good about > > those kinds of things. >

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-14 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:13:07PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > Maybe he means ping floods? Pings of death usually will crash a > box after a few packets hit it. As you said Debian is good about > those kinds of things. Are these things just malformed packets / frames sent to some machine or

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-13 Thread Chris Wagner
At 11:33 AM 9/13/00 -0600, Nathan wrote: >What ping of death attacks? > >The only ones I have heard of, were fixed with kernel patches seriously >quick after they came out. Maybe he means ping floods? Pings of death usually will crash a box after a few packets hit it. As you said De

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-13 Thread Chris Wagner
At 11:33 AM 9/13/00 -0600, Nathan wrote: >What ping of death attacks? > >The only ones I have heard of, were fixed with kernel patches seriously >quick after they came out. Maybe he means ping floods? Pings of death usually will crash a box after a few packets hit it. As you sa

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-13 Thread Nathan
What ping of death attacks? The only ones I have heard of, were fixed with kernel patches seriously quick after they came out. On Wed, 13 Sep 100, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > Yes, I should find this elsewhere, but for speed's sake I'll ask here > anyway. > > Is Linux Debian

ping of death attacks

2000-09-13 Thread Allen Ahoffman
Yes, I should find this elsewhere, but for speed's sake I'll ask here anyway. Is Linux Debian or other vulnerable to "ping of death" DOS attacks? Thanks.

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-13 Thread Nathan
What ping of death attacks? The only ones I have heard of, were fixed with kernel patches seriously quick after they came out. On Wed, 13 Sep 100, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > Yes, I should find this elsewhere, but for speed's sake I'll ask here > anyway. > > Is Linux Debian

ping of death attacks

2000-09-13 Thread Allen Ahoffman
Yes, I should find this elsewhere, but for speed's sake I'll ask here anyway. Is Linux Debian or other vulnerable to "ping of death" DOS attacks? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]