Ping of Death

[Scienceman123]

How was the Ping of Death sent? I looked it up on Wikipedia, and it said most systems are no longer vulnerable. How was it sent? How did it work?

[Foul_Fiend]

I think its by sending over sized ICMP packets.

[Scienceman123]

But how exactly was it sent?

[Foul_Fiend]

Read this.

http://insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html

[trevelyn]

2b2b2b2b2...

[Reverend Greed]

How was the Ping of Death sent? I looked it up on Wikipedia, and it said most systems are no longer vulnerable. How was it sent? How did it work?

Back in the 1990's - the ping of death was pretty popular.  This occurred when someone set the buffer size of the ping at 65510.

For example, open a Command Prompt in Windows and type the command:

C:\>ping -l 65510 google.com   (the '-l' is a lowercase L)

Newer Windows versions don't allow for sending a size of 65510.  The maximum is set at 65500.  So...if you try this:

C:\>ping -l 65500 google.com

More than likely you're going to get a timeout response, however, if you try this:

C:\>ping google.com

...you'll get a reply.

Back in the days when it worked at 65510 it was like hitting the host with a brick....as opposed to a normal default ping request which was like hitting the host with a feather.

[Nod]

Isn't that how WinNuke worked back in the days of Win95? It just overloaded the target computer with PoD attacks?

[Reverend Greed]

Isn't that how WinNuke worked back in the days of Win95? It just overloaded the target computer with PoD attacks?

WinNuke affected port 139 (NetBIOS) of a Windows 95 machine causing the blue screen of death; among other things.  The PoD was an ICMP_ECHO flood.  They both produced the same result - denial of service, loss of modem connection, and reboot.

[trevelyn]

omg that was so funny back then, i never did the stuff cos i couldnt afford a computer, and always got video games for my bdays.  I was always watching over my friends shoulders.  i remember stuff like:
ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d -c 3 195.65.88.12
and brute force programs that got you into warez channels on AOL, and kicking peopl off of AOL, and Sub7, and floppy drives.. man - the memories.

[hello.jpg]

yeah AOL had a lot of Progz\proggies back in the day.

AOL didn't take kindly to those programs, but then again they would TOS you at the drop of a hat anyway.

Ping of death was cool back in the day, but it was only ever good at annoying people at school or librarys where its easy to get the IP they're working on, it wasent really that cool for home use unless you wanted to hit random targets :<

[Reverend Greed]

Good 'ol AOL.  I was an OverHead account with RAINMAN rights for Keyword:  News.  Also, I was a QGuide when it was Quantum Leap and a Guide when it became AOL.

So, who knows, I may have been one to have TOS'ed you.