[43818] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Oct 26 13:06:10 2001
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To: Wojtek Zlobicki <wojtekz@idirect.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:44:57 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:55:45 -0400
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:44:57 EDT, Wojtek Zlobicki <wojtekz@idirect.com> said:
> > 3) If someone wget's my web server downloading several hundred megs
> > and I decide then to send a single ping back, and do a single
> > DNS lookup, is that wrong?
> Sure is, they have not authorized you to send such traffic. I've been
> downloading data from your web page, there is no reason for you to send ICMP
> traffic my way (one ICMP packet is one end of the extreme).
ICMP host/net/port unreachable, anybody? How about TCP ECN packets?
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