[68379] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Counter DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Taylor)
Thu Mar 11 02:50:48 2004
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:50:56 -0800
From: Gregory Taylor <greg@xwb.com>
To: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Oh yes, lets not forget the fact that if enough sites have this
'firewall' and one of them gets attacked by other sites using this
firewall it'll create a nuclear fission sized chain reaction of looping
Denial of Service Attacks that would probably bring most major backbone
providers to their knees.
(Popcorn's in the microwave as I speak)
Greg
Jay Hennigan wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Gregory Taylor wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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