Ping of Death

[lobo_pac]

saw this recently on my firewall log.

Dec/10/2003 20:32:51 Ping of Death Detect 68.164.87.213:32931 67.113.55.112:6881 Packet Dropped

is it anything to be concerned about? how do i tell if i've been attacked? how do i prevent? i have several ports open for some games, for real vnc and for bit torrent.

[Jeordiewhite]

Nah you wouldn't be effected anyhow, a ping of death is pinging a packet over 65530 i think it was and it would cause a buffer overflow and usually crash your system or go other strange nasty things.

However it looks like your firewall blocked it, my router thankfully blocks pings of death.
Not sure if they still crash systems as this was done mainly to windows 95 machines, unix, mainly old systems that are no longer in use or are patched.

[lobo_pac]

cool thanks. did some reading around after posting and kinda came to the same conclusion.

am brand new to the whole networking/firewall/etc. thing so was just curious. i hadn't suffered any ill effects and the Ping of Death was 2 days ago.

if you router blocked it you should be fine.

do you have anything open on 6881?

[Droppyale]

Originally posted by Jeordiewhite
a ping of death is pinging a packet over 65530 i think it was and it would cause a buffer overflow and usually crash your system or go other strange nasty things.

I was wondering what a ping of death was...


Thanks