Ping of Death? Can we shut down the host by this?

Question

Hello everybody !!
well someone has told me that if we ping a host over the network using ping with more than 64+ or even 128 bytes...is it true that if we ping to any host by this is it true that the host got shut down or hanged etc...if yes....please tell me...how........(In Winxp OS environment)

Answer 1

You are asking how to cause damage to the working enviroment of anothers PC. This is a criminal offence to do this, and also a breach of Yahoo terms to ask how.

Answer 2

The Ping Of Death is an old obsolete Dos,(Denial_of_Service Attack) which has not worked since about 1996 or 1997,way back in the days of Windows 95. It involved sending packets larger than the allowable 65,535 bytes to a computer which caused a buffer overflow and crashed the computer.The computer could not figure out how to reassemble the large packets.For historical purposes there are still tutorials on the web which show you the ping command used to do this attack.Just do a Google or Yahoo search.

Answer 3

nope.
all that will do will cause the routing protocols to break the ping up into seperate parts, then be reassembled at the end. This kind of thing happens all the time, your nto going to bring the network crashing down.

sorry to crush your hopes and dreams.

Answer 4

What you are asking is punishable under most state laws. It may be even covered under home land defense law as act of terrorism. Most systems (routers) have defenses again the DOS denial of service attacks anyways.