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Re: RBL-type BGP service for known rogue networks?

  • From: John Payne
  • Date: Thu Jul 06 20:03:16 2000

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 04:07:07PM -0500, Tony Mumm wrote:
> I think that is similar to what you want....and it might be adequate
> against scanners and other simple hacks.   I don't think it would be
> worth anything against a flood, the flood isn't going to care
> that it sees nothing coming back from your network.    It might 
> discourage someone if they see no ECHO_REPLYs coming back from their 10 Mbit
> smurf....but it probably wouldn't be long before they just stop caring.

The idea would be to throw away the valid packets so that their real customers
complained.
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