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Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

  • From: Christopher L. Morrow
  • Date: Tue Aug 05 00:09:04 2003 

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Jack Bates wrote:

>
> Randy Bush wrote:
> >>anti-spoofing eliminates certain avenues of attack allowing one to focus
> >>on remaining avenues, and hence (as Vix stated) is necessary but not
> >>sufficient.
> >
> >
> > it turns 1% of the technical problem into a massive social business
> > problem which, even if it was solvable (which it practically isn't),
> > would also be addressed by technical solutions where no spoofing is
> > involved.
> >
> Spoofed packets are harder to trace to the source than non-spoofed
> packets. Knowing where a malicious packet is very important to the

this is patently incorrect: www.secsup.org/Tracking/ has some information
you might want to review. Tracking spoofed attacks is infact EASIER than
non-spoofed attacks, especially if your network has a large 'edge'.