Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)

["Dick St.Peters" <stpeters () NetHeaven com>]

> So, what does this say?  Look for more 13-year-olds causing
> denial-of-service attacks for the hell of it.  It seems a lot of the
> providers SYN flooders like to attack are the ones which have IRC servers,
> but the flooders attack the more traditional services of those providers,
> too.

My outbound filter blocks packets not from an address in my space.  Am
I wrong in thinking this is the right thing for non-transit networks
to do?

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