[16226] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMURF amplifier block list - READ THIS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Ashdown)
Wed Apr 15 16:05:04 1998
From: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com>
To: karl@Mcs.Net (Karl Denninger)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:52:43 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980415142215.47102@Mcs.Net> from "Karl Denninger" at Apr 15, 98 02:22:15 pm
Karl Denninger said once upon a time:
>We already do this - its not a perfect filter, but it will only let you
>transmit packets with sources that COULD possibly come from us.
The puzzling thing is why anyone would want to transmit packets over their
for-cost links with an address that wasn't from their network. Proper
filters have other benefits aside from the obvious attack issues.
