[27178] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Feb 9 21:50:22 2000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Bino Gopal <bino@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 18:44:36 -0800
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> As Charles says, from what I've read of the CERT advisories, there is
> nothing proactive one can really do for these DDos attacks, besides
> securing machines from being hacked, correct?
yes, that is essential. but also, what has to be done is to go to all
dedicated cpe and prevent source spoofing, see RFC 2267.
[ do not be distracted by the smurf etc. red herring sub-discussions ]
randy
