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Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS)
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:04:58 -0500 (EST)
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:
don't be lulled into some kind of false sense of security by the fact that YOU are not seeing spoofed packets TODAY. let's close the doors we CAN close, and give attackers fewer options.
I don't have a false sense of security. We have lots of open doors and windows and even missing walls. Let's close the doors we can close, but buying screen doors for igloos may not be the best use of resources. uRPF doesn't actually prevent any attacks. Would you rather ISPs spend money to 1. Deploying S-BGP? 2. Deploying uRPF? 3. Respond to incident reports?
Current thread:
- Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS, (continued)
- Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS Dan Hollis (Mar 05)
- Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS Christopher L. Morrow (Mar 05)
- Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS Steve Francis (Mar 06)
- Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS Paul Vixie (Mar 06)
- Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Sean Donelan (Mar 06)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Alex Bligh (Mar 06)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Paul Vixie (Mar 06)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Dan Hollis (Mar 06)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Sean Donelan (Mar 06)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Paul Vixie (Mar 06)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Sean Donelan (Mar 06)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Mar 06)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Sean Donelan (Mar 06)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Paul Vixie (Mar 06)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Stephen J. Wilcox (Mar 07)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Christopher L. Morrow (Mar 07)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Avleen Vig (Mar 07)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Stephen J. Wilcox (Mar 07)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Christopher L. Morrow (Mar 07)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) E.B. Dreger (Mar 07)
- Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS) Sean Donelan (Mar 07)