Just my Xmas wish list... :)
J
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Robert Hiltibidal wrote:
> 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
>
>
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> 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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