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Re: Bogon list or Dshield.org type list

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter E. Fry)
Mon Jul 29 10:49:55 2002

Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:49:40 -0500
From: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


michael.dillon@radianz.com wrote:
[...]
> other people could look in their netflow data 
> for traffic from bogon addresses to your destination.

  Do other people need such a list to discover invalid source addresses
emerging from their networks?

> [...] the owners of compromised
> machines used to initiate DDOS attacks will begin to secure their machines
> the way they should have in the first place.

  Given.  The issue of securing networks has been covered here -- I'd've
figured it would have been worked into this issue as a given, for all
that it makes tracking attacks in the above scenario a tad more
challenging.

Peter E. Fry

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