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RE: Infected list

  • From: Scott Morris
  • Date: Mon Dec 26 21:14:16 2005

Irregardless of that, I always thought the whole point of a DDoS attack was
quantity of hosts, not relying on quality of connection.

I thought we were theorizing anyway.  ;) 

-----Original Message-----
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Florian Weimer
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 2:47 PM
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Subject: Re: Infected list


* Scott Morris:

> Not to mention that many IP's may be set to one device, yet there are 
> multiple things NAT'd behind it.

Are there any devices which perform non-static NAT and can forward
significant DoS traffic? 8-) Perhaps if it's just a single flow, but this
kind of DoS traffic would be rather unusual.