"broadcast ping" message

[Larry Rosenman]

--On Wednesday, April 16, 2003 12:05:41 -0700 Jamie Bowden 
<ragnar at sysabend.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, John Polstra wrote:
>
>> Oh, drop it!  Security fixes don't wait on standards.  You've got a
>> knob to make it do what you want -- so use it.  Please stop the
>> whining or at least remove me from the cc list.
>
> Since when is DOS a security issue?  My issue is default behaviour
> violating both POLA and RFC.  You've got a knob to turn it off if it bugs
> you.
For clueless newbies that cause an ISP to be blacklisted, it sure as HECK 
**IS** a security
issue.


>
> Jamie Bowden
>
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> Iain Bowen <alaric at alaric.org.uk>
>
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