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Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Sun Mar 7 02:49:48 2004

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 23:49:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3y8qdnmh9.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On 7 Mar 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:
> sean@donelan.com (Sean Donelan) writes:
> > > Try saying that after running a major DDoS target, with "HIT ME" your
> > > forehead.  No offense Sean but I'd like you to back your claim up with
> > > some impirical data first.
> > Has the number of DDOS attacks increased or decreased in the last few
> > years has uRPF has become more widely deployed?
> the number of spoofed-source attacks is down only-slightly.

the % of spoofed and bogon traffic was measured recently at several of 
the root nameservers. iirc it was suprisingly high.

-Dan


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