[27238] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Yahoo! Lessons Learned
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charley Kline)
Thu Feb 10 13:19:35 2000
From: "Charley Kline" <kline@uiuc.edu>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:13:02 -0600
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> > it rather depends on whether you consider dsl to be dialup. and they
> > don't have to be slaves. i could be a ddos *controller* over a 2400
> > baud modem. :)
>
> for which source filtering would do squat. <sigh^2>
...except force the controller to use its real IP address and thus make it
more traceable. Most ICMP- and UDP-triggered flooders on this campus get
their control messages from nonsense IP addresses.
/cvk
