Ping of Death. Anyone else seen FW warnings on this?

[jludwig]

On Monday 27 February 2006 21:41, John Mahowald wrote:
> On 2/24/06, jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net> wrote:
> > My firewall has been hit with the POD over 100 times (on port 6346).
> > The issue would be almost laughable except the question of if this is
> > being used to locate some other vulnerability in IPX, UDP,  or any other
> > transport mechanism?
> >
> > Has anyone else been hit, and does anyone know of any reason why anyone
> > would use this "archaic" DOS?
>
> Port 6346 appears to be gnutella, so you're probably seeing agressive
> P2P traffic.  http://isc.sans.org/port_details.php?port=6346
>
> John
Thanks. 
I should have checked sans.org myself!
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