[14556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Reynolds)
Tue Jan 6 23:44:46 1998
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 23:45:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Bradley Reynolds <brad@b63695.student.cwru.edu>
To: Steve Noble <steve@altrina.exodus.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980106121255.12348E-100000@altrina>
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Steve Noble wrote:
> The simple thing to do is null route the offending host(s) until they call
> you and ask you to turn it off. If they don't and you don't get any
> complaints from your customers, then all is good :)
>
> -Steve
>
This is a reactive solution to the problem. Though there are times
when the only solution you have is to attempt to quell the problem
through a plethora of ugly ip route statements, I hardly think it is
a good solution to the problem. Any person looking to harm your network
with intent greater than that of a passing whim would probably decide
to change his/her ip address after realizing that a host suddenly became
unreachable.
brad reynolds
ber@cwru.edu
