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... The hosts are primarily, but are not necessarily, limited to low-cost
routers and middleboxes for personal or residential use. In another
case, IP address prefixes that had once been reserved by the Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority ...
... IP address prefixes that had once been reserved by the Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) were embedded in a router product
so that it can automatically discard packets that appear to have
invalid source IP addresses ...
... Internet host and router designers, including network product
manufacturers, should not assume that their products will be deployed
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... product vendor named NetGear had manufactured and shipped over
700,000 routers with firmware containing a hard-coded reference to
the IP address of one of the University's NTP ...
... SNTP client, the affected products occasionally exhibit a failure
mode in which each flawed router produces one query per second
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... operational problems.
These flawed routers are widely deployed throughout the global
Internet and are likely to remain in use for years to come. As such,
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... anycast time service that aims to mitigate the damage
caused by the misbehavior of these flawed routers.
A technical report regarding the details of this situation is
...
... A technical report regarding the details of this situation is
available on the world wide web: Flawed Routers Flood University of
Wisconsin Internet ...