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Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

  • From: vern
  • Date: Tue May 07 16:08:01 2002

> > We most frequently are the zombie/reflector participants
> > in an attack that originates outside our network, to a
> > target outside our network. As many as 8,000 hosts on
> > our network are reflecting SYN floods in the current
> > attacks.
> 
> I finally found a paper on this type of attack.  

You might also try:

	"An Analysis of Using Reflectors for Distributed Denial-of-Service
	Attacks," V. Paxson, Computer Communication Review 31(3), July 2001.

	http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/reflectors.CCR.01/index.html
	http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/reflectors.CCR.01.ps.gz
	http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/reflectors.CCR.01.pdf

- Vern