Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

At 06:43 PM 10/3/96 EDT, Daniel W. McRobb wrote:

> I think Tim was using the assumption (which I consider quite valid) that
> once vendors release patches, those being attacked are likely to apply a
> patch quite quickly.  It's a motivaton issue... people are much more
> motivated to save their own butts in a hurry before trying to save
> everyone else's.  ;-)

Well, I would tend to agree with you here. Incentive comes in different
flavors.

In any event, and being a realist, I don't envision either one to
be implemented with blazing speed.

- paul

> I think most folks in this forum are good netizens and want to do the
> Right Thing(s) for everyone.  Others, especially those not privy to all
> the fuss about this issue, are less likely to take action and will
> probably be hosting these attacks for a while, possibly w/o knowing it
> until someone tracks it down and yells at them and/or they're attacked
> themselves (in which case they'll probably reach for things to protect
> themselves before trying to protect others).


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