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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflectiveattacks?
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > Indeed it does break that. P2P clients: Mostly transfer illegal content. > > As much as a lot of people love using these, I'm sure most realise they're > > on borrowed time in their current state. > > And I'm sure that if they were gone tomorrow, I'm sure they'd be back in > > another fashion soon. > > That may be, but its still a problem... I believe http and ftp also > transfer illegal content, should we shut them down? Email too? Often there > is illegal content in email. :( Ok before this gets out of hand :-) I wasn't talking about ISP's policing their customers in any way. I was merely stating that the blocking of inbound SYN packets would put a dent in the number of usable zombie DoS clients while at th same time having the side effect of breaking other server-type software such as P2P clients. I also went on to state that if the functionality of such clients really did break as a result of this, the majority of people wouldn't have (too much) of a right to complain as the clients are (mostly) used for illegal traffic. Yes this would probably cause a large loss of business in *some* areas where multiple broadband providers are availible. In other places where a broadband monopoly exists, you would either see a switch to business level contracts or a slight dip in business or people just living with it. For the record I'm not in favour of ISP's (or anyone else for that matter) policing the internet.
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