[BBLISA] Amazon EC2 Oddly Rejecting Very Specific IP Addresses

[Ryan Pugatch]

On 04/13/2010 01:32 PM, Steve Bower wrote:
> There's probably a filter on that router that prevents communication to
> remote "broadcast" addresses, and assumes that anything ending in .255
> is a broadcast address.  There was a trivial DOS attack where you could
> forge a packet's addresses to include a remote network's broadcast
> address, and make other systems send lots of packets to overwhelm
> routers, etc.

If that is the case, it should be an easy thing to determine.  Try to 
traceroute to something else ending in .255 (like 146.115.38.255)

Ryan