[45103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Growing DoS attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Whitehill)
Wed Jan 16 18:59:02 2002
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:57:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Eric Whitehill <eric@botbay.net>
To: Pascal Gloor <pascal.gloor@spale.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
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One thing we have done is rate limited the amount of traffic to the IRC
server one of our downlinks has. That seems to 'cure' most issues.
Of course, it still doesn't stop someone from hitting other parts of the
infrastructure, which seems to be all the 'rage' with kiddies now.
*sigh*
-Eric
<snip>
> If you run an well dDoS'ed IRC Server on your network I have a solution for
> you... not the best one, but still technically working..
