[68393] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Counter DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Mar 11 08:42:24 2004
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:41:43 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Gregory Taylor <greg@xwb.com>
Cc: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <40501A60.4050305@xwb.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Gregory Taylor wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Fortunately people with less clue usually have less bandwidth. Obviously
there are exceptions. I would expect to see localized tragedies if
something like this would get deployed but predicting death of the
internet is clueless.
Pete
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