[4619] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Thu Sep 19 18:25:23 1996
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:23:41 -0700
To: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>, "Jeff Young" <young@mci.net>
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, iepg@iepg.org
At 01:24 PM 9/18/96 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>At 10:43 AM 9/18/96 -0400, Jeff Young wrote:
>
>>
>>i guess the one common thread of this discussion is that whatever
>>must be done, must be done on the edges of the internet. and that's
>>not a cop out, we have as many edge cases as we have connections to
>>isp's.
>>
>
>No argument here.
>
If that be the consensus then there is only one way to accomplish
anything and that is for a handful of large backbone providers to begin
checking and to require that their peers also check source addresses.
Otherwise it's just an undocumented BCP.
--Kent
