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Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Sat Jan 18 22:42:30 2003

Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 03:41:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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CLM> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 05:16:43 +0000 (GMT)
CLM> From: Christopher L. Morrow


CLM> Egress filters are a distraction... today you don't have to
CLM> spoof. These are the red herring of 'security'.

They're one component, but not the cure-all.  With an increasing
number of "h4x0r3d" hosts, anti-spoofing's importance certainly
diminishes.  However...


CLM> Hmm, but the smaller the network the easier to filter it
CLM> is... right?

...you said it.  From an equipment standpoint, anyway.


Eddy
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