[22621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Huge smurf attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Tue Jan 12 18:53:47 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:34:30 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.990112053531.12761C-100000@sidhe.memra.com>; from Michael Dillon on Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 05:37:17AM -0800
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 05:37:17AM -0800, Michael Dillon wrote:
> > Much as I hate to say it, this seems to be one area where industry
> > self-regulation has utterly failed. I don't know what would be a better
> > solution; I hate to suggest government regulation. But I'm at a loss here.
>
> Government regulation is clearly the solution. Then everyone would have
> networks as well-run as the U.S. military...
The problem, of course, at least where smurf amplifiers are concerned, is
that many ISP's are *better* configured than the military. :) Who was it
that said a day or two ago that a majority of smurf amplifiers are being run
by military sites?
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