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List:       linux-net
Subject:    Re: Teardrop
From:       Amy <amy () internet-frontier ! net>
Date:       1997-11-30 2:57:53
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Alan Donald wrote:
> [...]
> >It might catch the no-brainers. I guess an entry in hosts.deny might
> 
> No, it's much too dicey to rely on the IP addresses attached to Teardrop
> attacks.  Given that the Teardrop exploit programs is designed to use
> spoofed origin addresses, there's little reason to believe the attacker
> will deliberately identify himself.

One of my users was stupid enough to put their own IP, after trying the
second before that with www.senate.gov :))  And it was a dynamic IP, so
they had to figure out which one they had first. Lamers.

Amy :)

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