very slow "network login" over PPP

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at samba.org
Wed Feb 2 23:21:12 GMT 2000


this works.  you have to flood the clients' network with  at least two
spoofed UDP packets per second.

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Dan Kaminsky wrote:

> > we can't fix badly-configured clients!
> > 
> > the client is broadcasting NetBIOS lookups on a network containing ONE
> > computer: itself!!!!
> > 
> > when this fails, it tries point-to-point NetBIOS lookups, and these
> > succeed.
> > 
> > there's NOTHING we can do about this.
> > 
> > if he can't fix the clients, he'll have to live with it.
> 
> What happens if we spoof the response to the point to point lookups before
> the client asks for them?  Is Windows amenable to gratuitious
> announcements?
> 
> Yes, I hope not too...but what does NT do?
> 
> Yours Truly,
> 
> 	Dan Kaminsky
> 	DoxPara Research
> 	http://www.doxpara.com
> 

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