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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)
And let's stop fooling ourselves with all those firewalls and other security toys - what we really need is cooperation among ISPs and world peace. Cheers Dima Michael Dillon writes: > > On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > PANIX, a large public access provider in New York, was badly hit with > > SYN flood attacks from random source addresses over the last few > > days. It nearly wrecked them. > > > > I think its time for the larger providers to start filtering packets > > coming from customers so that they only accept packets with the > > customer's network number on it. > > I disagree. A better way to do this would be for providers to cooperate to > track down the people who are doing it and make sure to flood the media > with press releases when the culprits are arrested. If the cracker > wannabe's realize that source-spoofed SYN attacks can still be quickly > traced, they will stop doing it. > > And the cooperation would do the net some good; maybe lead to more > cooperation down the line. > > Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting > Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 > http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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