[38911] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DDOS anecdotes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Sat Jun 23 15:56:12 2001
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: nanog@merit.edu (North America Network Operators Group Mailing List)
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Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 15:55:35 -0400 (EDT)
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[ On Saturday, June 23, 2001 at 20:04:06 (+0200), Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: DDOS anecdotes
>
> This is a real problem. It's not FUD. Microsofts choice to include full
> IP stack capabilities will make the problem worse, but I do not blame
> their IP stack for this like Mr Gibson does though.
No, their stack's not the root of the problem -- all the rest of their
OS is (and of course in particular the security model, or lack thereof).
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Greg A. Woods
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