[3359] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ping flooding (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nevin Williams)
Tue Jul 9 02:53:15 1996
From: Nevin Williams <nevin@ans.net>
To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon)
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 06:43:01 +0000 (UTC)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960708225137.27458P-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Jul 8, 96 10:55:35 pm
Michael Dillon writes:
>
> On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Daniel W. McRobb wrote:
>
> > There will likely never be a means for a single NSP to track down the
> > real source of spoofed packets using IPv4. Service providers won't be
> > letting other service providers track spoofed packets through their
> > network.
>
> Why not? Don't telcos do this?
> Or if your answer is that telcos only do it for the police and not for
> each other, then my question would be why can't we form an Internet
> equivalent, maybe affiliated with something like CERT, that can make these
> requests and with whom NSP's would cooperate.
What sort of incentive or penalty do you think would enable this
cooperation?
Nevin
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-Nevin Williams
ANS Network Operations
