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Disabling replies to broadcast ping requests

14 Jun 2005 1 minute read 2781 visits.

By default, Solaris systems are enabled to respond to broadcast ICMP echo packets, which are ping requests.

3 Dec 2001 1 minute read 1160 visits.

The Ping of Death attack, first seen in 1996, is achieved using the Internet control message protocol, or ICMP (hence the name ?Ping of Death?).