Re: users assigning their own IPs

Robert Hiltibidal (morgan@tekfront.com)
Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:22:34 -0600 (CST)

Ahhh... the denial of service part 2....

When I called Livingston they told me there was no hardware/software way
to prevent this. It has to do with the way the Livingstom os works with
the nameserving file. What I did was hand the party involved a 300$ bill.
I had a copy of the log showing multiple usage of the ip and when I
confronted the person they said they were running a quake server and
needed a static ip... What they did was cause periodic service denials
because we all know ip sharing can't exist. I haven't gotten my money yet
but they haven't been running the quake server either...=)

Rob

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Chuck Rouzer wrote:

> Just curious if anyone else has come across this.
>
> It appears users can "assign" their own IPs by setting their IP address
> to an available IP on our network. Is there a sure fire way to prevent
> this and to only allow the remote machine to work with the given IP?
>
> --
> /* Chuck Rouzer - rouzer@spyder.net - http://www.spyder.net /*
>

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