[4650] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sun Sep 22 14:52:18 1996
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 14:47:33 -0400
To: peter@home.pipex.com
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, iepg@iepg.org
The coordination aspect is in regards to tracing an attack back to
the perpetrator. The source prefix-based filtering only disallows
an attacker to use bogus source addresses.
- paul
At 11:10 AM 9/22/96 GMT, Peter Dawe wrote:
>ISP implementing filters for packets with false source addresses.
>
>Why does there need to be co-ordination? Surely most ISPs would implement
>this now they know there is a problem and they can fix it.
>
>We just need to put out a request to ISPs
>
>I would suggest this is done directly rather than through 'bodies' such as
>IEPG
>
>Peter Dawe
>
