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Re: Access to the Internic Blocked


From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis () ans net>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:00:13 -0400


In message <199608260131.VAA65517 () bugsy aa ans net>, "Daniel W. McRobb" writes:

Curtis Villamizar <curtis () ans net> wrote:

We have traced back such "clever" denial of service attacks before.
Within the last 6 months even.

Have you forgotten that we log and keep track of source/destination
pairs.

I sincerely wish you good luck doing that at OC-12.   If you know
a magic technology which can do that please let me know.
Doing that at 10 kpps is not going to be a solution any time soon.

You're kidding, right?  10kpps has been doable (and done) for years.
Did you forget a zero or two?

The vBNS folks are about to release an OC-3 header sniffer that runs on
a Pentium box.  Rumor has it that it'll handle OC-12 as well.  There's a
presentation of it on the USENIX agenda.
...


Daniel,

I'm not sure how your mailer got "Curtis Villamizar <curtis () ans net>
wrote:" stuck in there but you've attributed Vadim's comments about
magic technology that goes over 10kpps and other statments of things
being impossible to me.

Curtis
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