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Re: Defeating DoS Attacks Through Accountability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Austin Schutz)
Sat Nov 11 17:22:50 2000

Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:28:02 -0800
From: Austin Schutz <tex@off.org>
To: Barry Raveendran Greene <bgreene@cisco.com>
Cc: Mark Mentovai <mark-list@mentovai.com>,
	Mark Prior <mrp@connect.com.au>,
	Simon Lyall <simon.lyall@ihug.co.nz>, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <017501c04c28$e31aa170$4f01a8c0@bgreenent2.cisco.com>; from bgreene@cisco.com on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 01:46:45PM -0800
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 01:46:45PM -0800, Barry Raveendran Greene wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > I'll put it this way: filtering should be done against blocks that a
> > customer can announce, not against blocks that a customer is actively
> > announcing.  If you're filtering purely against current advertisements,
> > you're bound to break something sooner or later.
> 
> Good theory. But what one public source do all the ISP agree to validate the
> authority to announce?
> 

	CW? (ha ha)

	Who says you have to have use a public authority to filter your
customers against? You can have your own private authority, if you really
want. You just have to get the customer to populate/maintain their data in it.

	Austin


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