Re: Inbound UDP

"N. Miller" <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:27:41 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.spam.spamcop.help
Organization	Sahara Specific Lumbar Co., Inc.
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:03:28 -0400, Ellen wrote:

> The 169.254 address space should not be routed at all, not even
> internally within a network.  So anyone seeing packets from that
> address space should be able to assume that someone has installed
> a new computer on their LAN, and it was unable to find a DHCP
> server.  If you are seeing 169.254 addresses coming from outside your
> personal LAN, your ISP is running a broken (and insecure)
> network.

If you are seeing external sources, and UDP packets, more likely you are
seeing spoofed packets.

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Norman
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