From: Rishi Singh (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 23:54:32 EDT
The DUP packets resemble WLBS (Windows Load Balancing Service) in action.
What platform did you ping it from? A unix host? Windows ping command does
not show the extra icmp responses.
Just a thought.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven M. Bellovin [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 8:18 PM
To: Tony Rall
Cc:
Subject: Re: MicroSoft amplification?
In message <>, "Tony
Ral
l" writes:
>
>I see it too, on that address and on the second of the 3 addresses mapped
>to www.microsoft.com (the third address doesn't respond at all).
>
>Most likely this is due to a not very smart load distribution system.
I'm told that that is indeed the case. Well, strike the "not very
smart" part -- I wasn't told that -- but I was told that it is indeed
because of the load distribution system.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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