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Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Sep 17 10:01:00 1996

To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, iepg@iepg.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Sep 1996 23:35:33 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:58:37 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>


Michael Dillon writes:
> On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Alan Hannan wrote:
> 
> >   Could we drop the SYN/Denial thread?  It's becoming rather base.
> 
> The discussion could always be moved to the firewalls list.

I would suggest that it not be. This is actually a crisis that has to
be solved by action taken by service providers working together, and
does not involve conventional firewalls per se. I would say that it
is therefore germane to Nanog. 

Perry

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