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Re: Proactive steps to prevent DDOS?

  • From: Jeff Ogden
  • Date: Mon Jan 29 09:07:48 2001

At 9:27 AM +0200 1/29/01, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
At 12:52 27/01/01 -0500, Jeff Ogden wrote:
--Look into the systems that are being developed and starting to become
  available that help automate the work to diagnose DDOS attacks.
  Encourage your up streams to do the same.
I know of just Asta Networks:
Asta Networks claims cure for denial-of-service attacks, Jan 17, 2001
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0117ddos.html
Firm eyes DOS attacks, Jan 22, 2001
http://www.nwfusion.com/archive/2001/115979_01-22-2001.html

Can you elaborate on others you may know?

-Hank

Yes, Asta is one.

There is a DARPA funded research project called Lighthouse at the University of Michigan that is working in this area. Merit has been involved mostly by giving them access to traffic on a real operational network. See:

http://www.darpa.mil/leaving.asp?url=http://www.eecs.umich.edu/lighthouse

I understand that there are other DARPA funded efforts working on different aspects of the DOS problem (automatic detection, trace back, counter measures).

Take a look at "Networking & Distributed Systems" under

http://www.darpa.mil/ito/ResearchAreas.html

In particular see:

http://www.darpa.mil/ito/psum2000/J032-0.html
http://www.darpa.mil/ito/psum2000/J910-0.html
http://www.darpa.mil/ito/psum2000/J028-0.html