[14729] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reporting Little Blue Men
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Fri Jan 23 09:31:24 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 08:21:36 -0600
From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
To: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
Cc: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980122233344.007fbbf0@lint.cisco.com>; from Paul Ferguson on Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 11:33:44PM -0500
On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 11:33:44PM -0500, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> 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
>
We already do source filtering for the majority of our connection customers;
the exceptions are those on full DS1s who have announcement capability
(even if they're not using it).
This *includes*, by the way, our dial customers..... Its not impossible,
but does require a bit of work.
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