[53056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Tue Oct 29 15:26:24 2002
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Source address verification at access layer and rate limiting icmp would
> be fine starts.
>
Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit and receive data
using ECHO and ECHO_REPLY packets? Why they are considered
harmful?
I´m all for source address verification though.
Pete
