how to do a ping of death?

[aUt0eXebat]

I am tryung to do an expirament at my lab in college, and it dosnt seem to be working...... no im not going to do it on someones website, that would be really studpid

 

[yakko]

It does not work with newer versions of Windows and IE.

 

[mackstann]

thats that ping -e 65535 etc etc right?

 

[DAM]

what is this ping of death? is that like a DDOS?



dam()

 

[wyvrn]

One ping window will not do it. I had to open about 10 - 15 windows, each with the max packet size, to bring down my friends machines. They didn't really even die then, just got so slow they had to reboot to do anything. We were all testing each other on a 10BT network just for fun, this was not a malicious attack or anything. These are on Win98 machines, PIII 500 with 128 MB RAM.

 

[ghostman]

The command is different in different OSes. I opened over 20 ping windows under Windows 2000 to try to knock out my linux server...and it didn't work (I might have been doing it wrong though). I pinged once with my other linux system and it quickly did the trick on the server.

Just remember, don't ping something off a remote machine. I forgot I was on a different host once (telnet) and pinged my server. Then I hit CTRL+C to try to end it, but my telnet connection was not responding. Good thing I knew someone at the other end to help me restart the computer because it had "firewall problems"...hehe.

EDIT:
This isn't a DDoS attack, just a DoS attack. It's originating from only one source.

 

[nukefarmer]

The ping of death exploited a flaw in tcp implementations of win95 and a few other os's,
that would cause it to crash. The command was something like ping -l 65510 your.host.ip.address.
But it doesn't work with any recent os, only on first versions of win95 and old linux versions.
Pinging with large data packets is just a form of DOS attack, not really a ping of death.

 

[OS]

Ping of death shouldn't work on modern operating systems anymore. MS released patches for NT4/95 and almost certainly fixed it in later operating systems.

 

[yos]

Can someone explain the ping of death?
thx

-yos

 

[nukefarmer]

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

 

[ghostman]

<< gazillions of machines can be crashed by sending IP packets that exceed the maximum legal length (65535 octets) >>



I didn't know a ping of death only referred to pings that crashed computers, but I knew there was a difference between that and a ping flood. A ping flood clouds the network and is a DOS attack...in which case it affects any machine, regardless of OS.

 

[Kosugi]

Kill this thread.


Some information shouldn't be shared.


This is as bad as posting information to create bombs.


The destructive potential is too great, and irresponsible.

 

[fake]

Dude that is so 1996 ..

/me remembers getting his hands on ssping.c muahahah

 

[Rent]

Ping of the Dragon! I will ping your IP so that all incoming packets do not come back out and cause your harddrive to overflow, causing a very painfull BSOD
OOps

Its almost useless now, but I suppose it would be fun to play with.