[47845] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Francis)
Thu May 16 12:50:31 2002
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:47:45 -0700
From: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>
To: PJ <briareos@otherlands.net>, Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:35:51AM -0700, darkuncle@darkuncle.net said:
[snip]
> > http://online.securityfocus.com/news/126
>=20
> There is a difference between what's legally acceptable and what's ethica=
l or
> even prudent.
One thing that I may not have made clear: I am not saying port scanning is
necessarily unethical or foolish at all times, or that it has no place in t=
he
network operator's toolkit. It obviously does. However, scans tend to be a
very reliable precursor to malicious activity. Perhaps a graduated landmine
response that first mails the technical contact for the netblock in question
after a certain threshold has been crossed, and then a blackhole after the =
next
threshold is crossed (assuming no response from the contact attempt).
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Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t
Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m
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