North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: syn attack and source routing
Deja vu. Didn't this same topic crop up a couple of years ago when the IP spoofing-sky-is-falling scare began? If I'm not remiss, the discussion drifted towards encouraging end-system networks to disable source-routing at the entrance to their networks if they were paranoid, but encourage ISP's & transit providers to allow it. - paul At 01:18 PM 9/18/96 -0400, John Hawkinson wrote: > >Worst case, those folks feeling victimized can (and do!) simply shut >it off. > >This is a very different case from that of SYN flooding, where the >victims are powerless to stop it. > >Please don't take our LSRR away from us, it is very useful. >Campaigning to remove something just because you suspect it might be >bad is really not nice -- it will result in random clueless people >believeing you when perchance they should not :-) > >--jhawk > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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