[4998] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Oct 3 20:30:21 1996
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 18:49:41 -0400
To: "Daniel W. McRobb" <dwm@ans.net>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: Tim Bass <bass@linux.silkroad.com>, nanog@MERIT.EDU, iepg@iepg.org
At 06:43 PM 10/3/96 EDT, Daniel W. McRobb wrote:
>
>I think Tim was using the assumption (which I consider quite valid) that
>once vendors release patches, those being attacked are likely to apply a
>patch quite quickly. It's a motivaton issue... people are much more
>motivated to save their own butts in a hurry before trying to save
>everyone else's. ;-)
>
Well, I would tend to agree with you here. Incentive comes in different
flavors.
In any event, and being a realist, I don't envision either one to
be implemented with blazing speed.
- paul
>I think most folks in this forum are good netizens and want to do the
>Right Thing(s) for everyone. Others, especially those not privy to all
>the fuss about this issue, are less likely to take action and will
>probably be hosting these attacks for a while, possibly w/o knowing it
>until someone tracks it down and yells at them and/or they're attacked
>themselves (in which case they'll probably reach for things to protect
>themselves before trying to protect others).
>
