[6863] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Update on mail bombing threats--not so funny
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Jan 9 17:02:34 1997
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 16:59:08 -0500
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: mleber@he.net, nanog@merit.edu
At 01:19 PM 1/9/97 -0800, Vadim Antonov wrote:
>
>The solution is source address filtering at edges, to relieve attackers
>from the benefit of forged source addresses, and reverse lookup
Yet another application for draft-ferguson-ingress-filtering-01.txt.
:-)
- paul
>authentication in MTAs -- just do not accept any mail coming from an
>invalid source address, or source address not corresponding to what
>is in Sender, Reply-To or From field.
>
