[47952] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Francis)
Sun May 19 04:03:17 2002
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 00:57:52 -0700
From: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
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On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:12:01AM -0700, goemon@anime.net said:
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> And what the critics keep missing is that it will take several landmine=
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> hits across the internet to invoke a blackhole. Just scanning a few=20
> individual hosts or /24s won't do it.
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> There are three aims of the landmine project:
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> 1) early warning
> 2) defensive response
> 3) deterrence
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> I realize such a project won't be absolutely, positively perfect in every=
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> aspect, and it won't satisfy 100% of the people 100% of the time. But=20
> that's hardly an excuse to not do it. IMO the positives outweigh the=20
> negatives by far.
This is what I have been (unsuccessfully) attempting to state. I apparently
need more practice in being coherent. :)
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