[4995] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BSDI announcement about defense against syn-flooding attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Oct 3 20:13:58 1996
To: Rob Liebschutz <rob@rjl.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:35:13 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 20:09:38 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Rob Liebschutz writes:
> It scares me to think how much effort has gone into defense against
> this one denial of service attack when there are endless possibilities
> for other ones.
Not that many, actually. Most of the remaining ones are variations on
a theme. I'm not saying that things are great, but this isn't going to
destroy the internet.
Perry
