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At 02:36 PM 9/17/96 -0700, Time Keeper wrote: >It is also important to remember that the SYN attack is only one in a class >of one-way denial-of-service attacks. While hardening the servers on the >net against this kind of attack is important (and is the province of the >server/OS vendors, not the router or firewall vendors), the most effective >way to end a denial of service attack is to trace it to its source, and >terminate it there. > And terminate the perpetrator. ,-) > >It is time for a Best Common Practice document. > > Erik Fair > Erik, I volunteer to co-author. Please contact me if you are interseted in getting this document put together RSN. - paul - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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