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by toast0 3222 days ago
Sadly, chargen is still alive on the open internet. It's not really a security hazard, but it does have a huge DDoS amplification factor, so it's not a good idea to run it on public IPs (and if you firewall it, do the world a favor and firewall the incoming requests, don't try to 'fix' it by firewalling the outgoing responses)