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Re: FYI: RFC 3882 on Configuring BGP to Block Denial-of-Service Attacks
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 02:28:43 +0000 (GMT)
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:Given recent discussions on blackholing traffic, this may be of interest.
communities to remotely trigger black-holing of a particular destination network to block denial-of-service attacks. Black-holing can be applied on a selection of routers rather than all BGP-speaking routers in the network. The document also describes a sinkhole tunnelThis tunneling is 'centertrack' which is patented... Also, tunneling is a dangerous prospect when you get very large amounts of attack traffic.
hrm... unless Robert can send the Patent No. I think I was mistaken, CenterTrack wasn't patented, though I could swear it was... -Chris
Current thread:
- FYI: RFC 3882 on Configuring BGP to Block Denial-of-Service Attacks Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Oct 01)
- Re: FYI: RFC 3882 on Configuring BGP to Block Denial-of-Service Attacks Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 01)
- Re: FYI: RFC 3882 on Configuring BGP to Block Denial-of-Service Attacks Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 01)
- Re: FYI: RFC 3882 on Configuring BGP to Block Denial-of-Service Attacks Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 01)