[68110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul G)
Wed Mar 3 03:27:59 2004
From: "Paul G" <paul@rusko.us>
To: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>,
"william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: "John Obi" <dalnetuzer@yahoo.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 03:26:07 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: "John Obi" <dalnetuzer@yahoo.com>; <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS
>
>
> william(at)elan.net wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, John Obi wrote:
> >
> >>Hello Nanogers!
> >>
> >>I'm happy to see this, and I hope C&W, Verio, and Level3 will do the
same!
> >>http://informationweek.securitypipeline.com/news/18201396
> >
>
>
> And what kind of response to DOS are we talking about? Blackholing the
> target IP to allow your pipe to pass packets and so that your router is
> pingable (which is probably the measure for whether you are up or not?)
cant speak for them, but this would be my preferred first step. next step
is, of course, an attempt to filter on {source, unique characteristics, what
have you} and removing the blackhole.
paul
