[53109] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: no ip forged-source-address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu Oct 31 01:51:29 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:47:33 +0200
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200210310636.g9V6avDv004837@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 01:36 AM 31-10-02 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>It's the difference between:
>
>A) Going out to your car at the end of a too-long day and finding a
>broken taillight.
>
>B) Going out to your car at the end of a too-long day and finding a
>broken taillight and a business card under the windshield wiper that
>has "Sorry - call me and I'll pay for it" written on the back.
It is better than not having it but we should not get our hopes up that DOS
attacks would stop. Remember when 60% of the Internet mail servers were
open mail relays? We all thought closing them up would stop spam. Today
it is less than 1% but I would say that the amount of spam has not dropped
proportionality. See:
http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2002/1014buzz.html
for reference.
-Hank
