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Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vern@ee.lbl.gov)
Tue May 7 17:54:10 2002

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From: vern@ee.lbl.gov
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
Cc: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>,
	Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 07 May 2002 21:43:10 -0000.
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 14:50:47 -0700
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> 1) rate-limits aren't going to solve anything.

Um, you *could* try reading the paper.

> 2) I'm pretty sure most providers aren't going to let customers determine
> traffic engineering methods on their networks

See the above.  This is not something done by the customers (well they
could, but that's not the main idea).

> 3) if this is NOT done in a secure manner I bet I can make
> www.whitehouse.com disappear... :)

Could be we thought of that too!

		Vern

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