[50570] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: If you have nothing to hide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bdragon@gweep.net)
Mon Aug 5 10:52:16 2002
To: len@netsys.com (Len Rose)
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:51:45 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020805090303.M6708@netsys.com> from "Len Rose" at Aug 05, 2002 09:03:03 AM
From: <bdragon@gweep.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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> our packets. While I'm certainly in favor of anything edge providers can
> do to eliminate denial of service attacks based on source-routing,
> I certainly don't want anything further.
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denial of service based upon source routing? I hadn't heard of any denial
of service attacks of that sort.
Disabling source-routing is like filtering icmp, sure you might block
a few abuses, but more often than not, you are throwing out legitimate
traffic.
