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Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection

  • From: Dan Hollis
  • Date: Sun Mar 07 02:51:43 2004

On 7 Mar 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:
> [email protected] (Sean Donelan) writes:
> > > Try saying that after running a major DDoS target, with "HIT ME" your
> > > forehead.  No offense Sean but I'd like you to back your claim up with
> > > some impirical data first.
> > Has the number of DDOS attacks increased or decreased in the last few
> > years has uRPF has become more widely deployed?
> the number of spoofed-source attacks is down only-slightly.

the % of spoofed and bogon traffic was measured recently at several of 
the root nameservers. iirc it was suprisingly high.

-Dan