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Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Fri Oct 26 13:12:24 2001 
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:44:57 EDT, Wojtek Zlobicki <[email protected]>  said:
> > 3) If someone wget's my web server downloading several hundred megs
> >    and I decide then to send a single ping back, and do a single
> >    DNS lookup, is that wrong?
> Sure is, they have not authorized you to send such traffic.  I've been
> downloading data from your web page, there is no reason for you to send ICMP
> traffic my way (one ICMP packet is one end of the extreme).

ICMP host/net/port unreachable, anybody? How about TCP ECN packets?

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