[4243] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Mon Sep 9 20:35:36 1996
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 20:34:49 -0400
From: "Dick St.Peters" <stpeters@NetHeaven.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.QUAD.3.94.960909090923.602A-100000@quad.quadrunner.com>
> So, what does this say? Look for more 13-year-olds causing
> denial-of-service attacks for the hell of it. It seems a lot of the
> providers SYN flooders like to attack are the ones which have IRC servers,
> but the flooders attack the more traditional services of those providers,
> too.
My outbound filter blocks packets not from an address in my space. Am
I wrong in thinking this is the right thing for non-transit networks
to do?
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Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, Pearly Gateway, Ballston Spa, NY
stpeters@NetHeaven.com Owner, NetHeaven 518-885-1295/800-910-6671
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