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Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

  • From: Paul Ferguson
  • Date: Sun Sep 22 14:49:49 1996 
The coordination aspect is in regards to tracing an attack back to
the perpetrator. The source prefix-based filtering only disallows
an attacker to use bogus source addresses.

- paul

At 11:10 AM 9/22/96 GMT, Peter Dawe wrote:

>ISP implementing filters for packets with false source addresses.
>

>Why does there need to be co-ordination? Surely most ISPs would implement 
>this now they know there is a problem and they can fix it.
>
>We just need to put out a request to ISPs
>
>I would suggest this is done directly rather than through 'bodies' such as 
>IEPG 
>
>Peter Dawe
>

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