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Re: Denial of service attacks apparently from UUNET Netblocks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John A. Tamplin)
Thu Oct 9 00:38:09 1997

Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 23:09:35 -0500 (CDT)
From: "John A. Tamplin" <jat@traveller.com>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
cc: "Matthew V. J. Whalen" <mwhalen@uucom.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971008230850.04924@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>

On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> To belabor the obvious, remember that not all dialups are hosts; what
> you need to set as the filter on the source addresses is a _netmask_.

And for those, you aren't dynamically assigning the addresses so it is
easy to build a filter for them.

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