Re: (PM) DoS attack

Stephen Zedalis (tintype@exis.net)
Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:49:22 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Jason Hatch wrote:

>
>Why are you blocking reserved addresses? I thought these were unroutable
>to begin with?

Yes, but that depends on the router, and for this purpose the Portmasters
ARE routers. Not every router has reserved addresses hardcoded in, (nor
do you really want that - just in case IANA changes things as unlikely as
that may be) you have to incorporate the reserved addresses in your
default filtering setup.

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