[47364] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DDOS attacks and Large ISPs doing NAT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu May 2 14:31:58 2002
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To: "Mansey, Jon" <Jon_Mansey@verestar.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 May 2002 11:06:33 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 14:26:13 -0400
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On Thu, 02 May 2002 11:06:33 PDT, "Mansey, Jon" said:
> The DDOS discussion is specifically referring to a "live" syn or syn/ack
> attack from hosts that respond to connection requests. A NAT'd cell phone
> wont, cant ever, respond to an unsolicited connection request.
*RING*!! *RING*!! Oh, I'm sorry, that was the clue phone ringing - it
couldn't be your phone, since it wouldn't answer an unsolicited connection
request....
You were saying?
(To fill in the blanks - get a trojan loaded into the cellphone/PDA combo,
and then send it a page telling it who/what to attack).
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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