smurf's attack...

I'm sorry, but that's naive. Unless you've taken steps to prevent
it, or you're just lucky, it's trivial to find out a lot of
things. Your mail server, for example, has a mask of 0xFFFFFF00.

Another network at ukans.edu apparently has a mask of 0xFFFFFC00,
and another is 0xFFFFF800.

:: Mike ::

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randy