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Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Satchell)
Mon Aug 3 09:03:55 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 06:00:03 -0700
From: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 08/03/2015 05:40 AM, Mel Beckman wrote:
> What would be the point of spoofing the source IPs to be identical?
> You're just making the attack trivial to block.  Plus you could never
> do any kind of TCP session attack, since you can't complete a
> handshake. I would have to call this sort of attack a LAAADDoS (Lame
> Attempt At A DDoS).:)

Reflection attack as a secondary goal against the spoofed source IP? 
Primary goal would be a SYN flood of many servers.

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