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October 23rd, 2004, 02:54 PM
#11
The "Ping of death" was a denial of service attack which came out in about 1996. It affected almost every system around, including NT, other versions of Windows (all winsock stacks I tested it on), Linux and proprietry Unix.
However I don't think any system made since then is vulnerable.
Slarty
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October 23rd, 2004, 04:51 PM
#12
I will take a wild guess, and suggest that Mox's router is being too sensitive. I believe that it may be detecting fragmented packets and giving a false positive for POD.
Thats very possible, as it happens infrequently and in no desernable pattern. Unless some one is testing a new form of the POD they are attempting to get to work, but then I would think they would be using a known machine they could moniter and not just any random machine.
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October 23rd, 2004, 05:03 PM
#13
Kudo's to slarty on this one -- no system since then has been affected although quite a few users (not many, but a few) still use some of the older systems that were affected (namely Win95/earlier Windows versions, etc). I didn't think any system YOU personally, moxnix would own would be succeptible (sp?) to a Ping of Death because I know none my systems are. I figured the same for you.
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