[39529] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DDoS attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Thu Jul 12 20:48:37 2001
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:47:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Brad <brad@americanisp.net>
Cc: David Harmelin <david.harmelin@dante.org.uk>,
Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>, "'up@3.am'" <up@3.am>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Brad wrote:
> Sorry- but after doing all of that, DDoS attacks still
> saturate even the largest circuits- thus denying the
> service.
It is not perfect, but it does help.
Of course there are those who take the approach "it is not a perfect
solution so we will not bother filtering anything at all".
-Dan
