[4472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Miller)
Tue Sep 17 11:06:51 1996
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:58:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Miller <david@sparks.net>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
cc: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609171358.JAA27547@jekyll.piermont.com>
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> 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.
If we're voting, I'd say inet-access. SYN attacks and defense are more
centered on the ISP's than the backbones.
--- David Miller
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