North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: FYI: RFC 3882 on Configuring BGP to Block Denial-of-Service Attacks
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > > > Given recent discussions on blackholing traffic, this may > > be of interest. > > communities to remotely trigger black-holing of a particular > > destination network to block denial-of-service attacks. Black-holing > > can be applied on a selection of routers rather than all BGP-speaking > > routers in the network. The document also describes a sinkhole tunnel > > This tunneling is 'centertrack' which is patented... Also, tunneling is a > dangerous prospect when you get very large amounts of attack traffic. hrm... unless Robert can send the Patent No. I think I was mistaken, CenterTrack wasn't patented, though I could swear it was... -Chris
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