North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Re[2]: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Justin W. Newton wrote: > We are currently blocking any outgoing packets which have a source address > which is not advertised by us. I have also crossposted Avi's and Craig's > access filter list for Border routers to the inet-access mailing list which > has approx 2,000 subscribers, mostly small ISP's. Maybe it'll help. Maybe > not. One thing that would help is for somebody to translate that filter list to Livingston IRX format since a lot of smaller ISP's use those boxes. Someone else made a comment that many ISP's wouldn't have a clue what a SYN packet is. Actually, now a lot more of them do because I have forwarded some of the discussion from here onto a few ISP mailing lists. 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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