[4644] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sat Sep 21 16:49:19 1996
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 13:39:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
cc: iepg@iepg.org
In-Reply-To: <199609211957.MAA26073@scruz.net>
On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
> > Source address filters do benefit the small ISP by making him less of a
> > target for hackers looking for a staging point.
> You think a hacker is going to break into your router to check out
> your IP filter lists first, before breaking into your Unix boxes to
> attempt an (unsuccessful) attack?
No, they break into your servers, run a source-spoofing test, then leave
to find greener pastures. If they could break into the routers they would
just modify the filters but it's harder to break into a router than a
server.
Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
