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Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Scott Solmonson wrote: > > Dan Hollis wrote: > > > I was thinking the exact same thing. The DoS'er would end up DoS'ing > > > themselves. > > Since when does "same source address" mean "same client"? > > Ya- start redirecting everyone to an AOL proxy... > > Referrer != forwarded-for. Correct. And even that simple snippet of code spits out *no* referrer tag for you to filter on. So I was assuming you meant source IP. > When we are talking about redirecting, we are talking about redirecting to > the DoS'ers page. Not their client. So you would redirect them *where*? My (I'm running my auto-refresher) "page", what ever that is? Or the <DoS-tool-maker>'s page? > > And all these depend on being able to identify "authentic" users- > > Nope Huh? - If you're going to redirect someone, you first need to identify them as "bad". > Huh? The client is netscape or IE. I dont know of any way for javascript > to override the headers the browser client sends. Not necessarily- their site stated that a custom client was in the works- We all know a perl script wrapped around netcat would do nicely. -- Scott Solmonson Speedera Networks Inc. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* [email protected] / 408.970.1591
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