North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
I agree completely, but neither one is a panacea. - paul At 08:40 AM 10/3/96 -0400, Dima Volodin wrote: >And if everyone doesn't make any attacks we won't have any problems >either. To rephrase - relying on ingress filtering is putting your >security in someone other's hands, doing host-based stuff is protecting >yourself with your own hands. To rephrase once again - doing ingress >filtering is "being conservative with what you produce", being able to >cope with SYN floods on the host level is "being liberal on what you >accept." We need both, and overemphasising one side of the solution will >do a lot of harm. > > >Dima > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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