[14723] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reporting Little Blue Men
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Jan 22 23:43:19 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 23:33:44 -0500
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980122190947.63033@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
At 07:09 PM 1/22/98 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>
>Yes, it could be, but let's remember; isn't the smurf attack the one
>that _depends_ on a forged _source_ IP address in order to "work"?
>
And, as an aside, the draft-ferguson-ingress-filtering-03.txt draft
has been advanced by the IESG to published as an Informational RFC.
Please go beat people over the head with it, when it is published.
Thank you for your attention,
- paul
