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Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)

  • From: Perry E. Metzger
  • Date: Mon Sep 09 21:42:59 1996 
"Dick St.Peters" writes:
> My outbound filter blocks packets not from an address in my space.  Am
> I wrong in thinking this is the right thing for non-transit networks
> to do?

Yes, it is. If everyone on earth did this, it would make the problem
largely go away. I higly recommend that people implement it on a wide
scale.

Perry
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