[3889] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Access to the Internic Blocked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Mon Aug 26 14:27:05 1996
To: "Daniel W. McRobb" <dwm@ans.net>
cc: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>, curtis@ans.net, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Aug 1996 21:31:12 EDT."
<199608260131.VAA65517@bugsy.aa.ans.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:00:13 -0400
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <199608260131.VAA65517@bugsy.aa.ans.net>, "Daniel W. McRobb" writes:
>
> > Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net> wrote:
> >
> > >We have traced back such "clever" denial of service attacks before.
> > >Within the last 6 months even.
> >
> > >Have you forgotten that we log and keep track of source/destination
> > >pairs.
> >
> > I sincerely wish you good luck doing that at OC-12. If you know
> > a magic technology which can do that please let me know.
> > Doing that at 10 kpps is not going to be a solution any time soon.
>
> You're kidding, right? 10kpps has been doable (and done) for years.
> Did you forget a zero or two?
>
> The vBNS folks are about to release an OC-3 header sniffer that runs on
> a Pentium box. Rumor has it that it'll handle OC-12 as well. There's a
> presentation of it on the USENIX agenda.
...
Daniel,
I'm not sure how your mailer got "Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
wrote:" stuck in there but you've attributed Vadim's comments about
magic technology that goes over 10kpps and other statments of things
being impossible to me.
Curtis
