[4518] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SYN floods
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonid Egoshin)
Tue Sep 17 20:20:48 1996
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 17:12:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Leonid Egoshin <egoshin@genesyslab.com>
To: michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu
Cc: iepg@iepg.org
>From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
>
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Source address checking ... hm-m, pretty idea, but it do not very
large help - it is very simple to make login to some public (or not
very protected) host and produce SYN flood from legitimate address.
At least one day server would be blocked. And after that - force
shutdown communication between server and this public host (net)
BY SERVER OWNER HANDS !
- Leonid Yegoshin, LY22
