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Re: Who does source address validation? (was Re: what's that smell?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Tue Oct 8 17:16:41 2002

Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:14:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021008225349.S85622-100000@sequoia.muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> Ok, but how do you generate megabits worth of traffic for which there is
> no return traffic?

spammers... smurfers... attackers...

> At some level, someone or something must be trying to do something 
> _really hard_ but keep failing every time.

spammers... smurfers... attackers...

> It just doesn't make sense.

Yes, it doesnt make sense to not filter.

-Dan
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