[4641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sat Sep 21 15:45:35 1996
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:34:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
cc: iepg@iepg.org
In-Reply-To: <199609211932.MAA00678@quest.quake.net>
On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> Given the "tragedy of commons" nature of the problem (you
> work hard to implement filters, which do not benefit _you_)
Source address filters do benefit the small ISP by making him less of a
target for hackers looking for a staging point.
Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com