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Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks
From: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry () swbell net>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:49:15 -0600
On 29 Oct 2002 at 20:51, Brett Frankenberger wrote: Brett! Long time, no hear, now that the Nortel/Bay newsgroup has pretty much wound down. Like Usenet in general.
Addressing just the issue of how traceroute works, I'll point out that (a) Most or all flavors of traceroute distributed by Microsoft use ICMP ECHO instead of UDP for the outbound packets [...]
...And I rather like that method. It's sad, but I'll not allow random high-port UDP to my stations.
FWIW, I don't think rate limiting ICMP is likely to have a negative impact. I also don't think it's a good idea, though -- it might help to identify or prevent some problems in the short term, but in the long run, it's a race we can't win [...]
Hmmm. Agreed. Peter E. Fry
Current thread:
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks, (continued)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Jeff Shultz (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Jared Mauch (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Jeff Shultz (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Stephen J. Wilcox (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Jared Mauch (Oct 29)
- ICMP filtering, was Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Rob Thomas (Oct 29)
- Re: ICMP filtering, was Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Rafi Sadowsky (Oct 29)
- Re: ICMP filtering, was Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Rob Thomas (Oct 30)
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- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Jared Mauch (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Brett Frankenberger (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Peter E. Fry (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Jared Mauch (Oct 29)
- RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks fingers (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks bob (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Jared Mauch (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Jared Mauch (Oct 29)