[4554] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SYN flood messages flooding my mailbox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed Sep 18 08:08:41 1996
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:51:59 -0400
To: curtis@ans.net
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>, curtis@ans.net, nanog@merit.edu
At 04:15 PM 9/17/96 -0400, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
>
>Of course, if by "known route" you mean known because it is in the
>IRR, and the IRR is known to be reliable, then I accept your argument
>but caution that the IRR is not always reliable, but this is yet
>another reason to make it more reliable.
>
Curtis,
This is also a valid argument for *not* relying on the IRR for security
issues.
- paul
