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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Clayton Fiske wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:46:26PM -0500, Vijay Gill wrote: > > > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > > > > allow me to channel a few unnamed large national backbones: > > > > > > "Well if thats the case, then they should just turn off their DNS server, > > > because that's obviously the cause of the attack." > > > > Bill, don't make me smack you. > > > > The DDoS problem is endemic to the current state of hardware and software > > that comrpises the internet. There are _no_ good answers to DDoS, > > especially if the coders get smarter and start doing things like: > > I think this was his point, in reference to several fairly recent > threads about DDoS on IRC networks. The "get rid of IRC and you get > rid of the attacks" opinion has surfaced a number of times here. <TONGUE LOCATION="CHEEK"> .. you know guys, this might be a reason to run IRC servers. Give the script kiddies new things to attack, and they won't get bored and start DDoSing more e-commerce sites, "core" routers, etc. </TONGUE> There are good answers to DDoS even in todays internet; there is just too much inertia to actually get people to implement it. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "Sex Change: a simple job of outside <[email protected]> to inside plumbing." - Some random movie
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