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Re: IP address
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996 [email protected] wrote:
> > >What is the risk of publishing your dynamic IP address to a web page while you are on line? How vulnerable is someone just connected to the internet, w/o any server running? What attacks are feasable? --Internaut
> >
> > Well, if you are running Win95 (all) or 3.1 (w/certain TCP/IP stacks) your
> > machine can be locked up or rebooted at *any* time using just PING!
> >
>
> Isn't is Unix that is actually vulnerable?
I have never been able to cause more than a mild performance
degredation by pinging a Windows 95 machine with large packets. When
testing the idea I kept increasing the packet size until the machine no
longer responded, but the machine still had TCP/IP capabilities (in terms
of transmitting data and forming connections). Ping flooding is another
matter though. You probably could cause a larger performance drop.
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