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Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

  • From: alok
  • Date: Mon Nov 04 09:35:29 2002

is any active working group persuing this matter seriously?

-rgds
Alok
----- Original Message -----
From: alok <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 4:26 AM
Subject: Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks




>The first, dropping broadcasts destined to your customers, is possibly
>doable, but not trivial.

------> IGP learnt networks .. a small tweaky bit which learns broadcast
addresses via the networks in the IGP wud help (again summarization wud make
it bad)

>The second, catching all broadcasts coming
>in, out, or just passing through, is pretty much impossible.

-----> a very small percentage cud be blocked if u were willing to link this
to BGP learnt networks..at least those are "complete networks", not
subnetted....

ofcourse its a very small portion, mebbe u cud ask guys to send more
specific BGP routes from now....

-A