[4495] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Sep 17 15:59:56 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: pferguso@cisco.com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:38:25 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: kwe@6SigmaNets.com, nanog@merit.edu, iepg@iepg.org
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960917185742.0073fad4@lint.cisco.com> from "Paul Ferguson" at Sep 17, 96 02:57:42 pm
> I would personally like to see this topic added as an agenda item at
> the upcoming Ann Arbor NANOG meeting. At least a brief discussion of
> conventional wisdom (filter on valid source prefixes at periphery, etc.)
> should be in order.
>
> - paul
Hmm, sounds like a debate panel (similar to what's planned for a multihoming
thing) would be in order, since there's dissention about where it's possible
or desirable to implement the filtering.
The key thing is a 5-minute exhortation to make available to customers
or certain key groups (like CERT) a clueful-24-hour-contact # from each
major provider...
Avi
