[68378] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Counter DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Thu Mar 11 02:44:34 2004
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:43:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: Gregory Taylor <greg@xwb.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <40501460.5040509@xwb.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Gregory Taylor wrote:
> After reading that article, if this product really is capable of
> 'counter striking DDoS attacks', my assumption is that it will fire
> packets back at the nodes attacking it. Doing such an attack would not
> be neither feasible or legal. You would only double the affect that the
> initial attack caused to begin with, plus you would be attacking hacked
> machines and not the culprit themselves, thus pouring gasoline all over
> an already blazing inferno.
On the other hand, they could become immensely popular, reaching the
critical mass when one of them detects what is interpreted as an attack
from a network protected by another. Grab the popcorn and watch as they
all bludgeon each other to death. :-)
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