[53105] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: no ip forged-source-address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Oct 31 01:22:23 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:21:00 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: "H. Michael Smith, Jr." <michael@awtechnologies.com>
Cc: 'Hank Nussbacher' <hank@att.net.il>, <variable@ednet.co.uk>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <32BBA5238987F54A9748DBB2E904B56D4C9B11@admex-03.admin2000.cau.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, H. Michael Smith, Jr. wrote:
>
> A fundamental effect of spoofing addresses from your local subnet is
> that when the packets reach their target, the source addresses are
> meaningful. I realize that the traceability of these packets has
> already been mentioned, but I want to point out the profound difference
> between a DDoS attack with meaningful vs. meaningless source addresses.
>
I'm confused.. its still a DoS attack, eh??
