[68487] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Counter DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Fri Mar 12 18:22:14 2004
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:20:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Gregory Taylor <greg@xwb.com>, Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <40506C97.7020505@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Petri Helenius wrote:
>
> 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.
When pricing structures and deployment of broadband in the US approaches
that of Korea and Japan, I think you'll find that that isn't the case in
the US anymore.
> 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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