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Re: BLS FastAccess internal tech needed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Jan 12 23:09:47 2006

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: ops.lists@gmail.com, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: (Your message of "Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:58:23 GMT.")
             <20060112.195851.1587.15308@webmail05.lax.untd.com> 
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:09:13 -0500
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In message <20060112.195851.1587.15308@webmail05.lax.untd.com>, "Fergie" writes
:
>
>RFC2827/BCP38?
>

The problem is that an ISP can do all the source filtering it wants, 
but if it only blocks SYNs to port 25 all it takes is one unfiltered 
dial-up to spoof that ISP's addresses.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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