very interesting and worrying. this was an exploit that i was not aware of. more than a billion packets??!!?? that is scary stuff. thanks for posting that. unfortunately for steve gibson, he has certainly painted a target on his systems. he knows this too. i chuckled at the comment 'let's blast gibson and see what he does'... moose. On February 27, 2002 12:40 am, you wrote: > Those of our members who are administering internet servers may like to > read through the report of a denial of service attack in the third web link > here. The fourth link is a PDF of the same report for those that prefer > this. > > The first two may also have some useful notes, and the others may also be > useful. > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics