[68368] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Counter DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Wed Mar 10 22:45:22 2004
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 03:44:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
To: Mark Borchers <mborchers@igillc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <001201c40714$ab75a210$b9181e43@Traveler>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Mark Borchers wrote:
>
> > The company said it bases its theory on the military doctrine of
> > "necessity and proportionality", which means the response to
> > an attack is
> > proportionate to the attack's ferocity. According to the
> > company, a response could range from "profiling and
> > blacklisting upstream providers" or it
> > could be escalated to launch a "distributed denial of service
> > counter-strike" ...
>
> Their ROE white paper is full of pseudo-military phraseology
> that suggests lots of safeguards in place to respond only to
> verifiably culpable adversaries and to ensure responsible
> executive oversight.....right up to the point when they
> start talking about distributed denial of service counterattacks
> (under the heading which they refer to as "assymmetric measures").
hopefully they will spend their time attacking that pesky attacker:
127.0.0.1... he's always attacking customers, shouldn't he have been
caught by now?
