Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

[Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net>]

I respectfully disagree. Network engineers have to keep up with many
tasks and preventing DoS/DDoS should be the responsibility of
everyone. I see more folks worried about spam than they are actual
security.

My two cents.

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us> wrote:
> Noel Butler wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 07:21, Chris McDonald wrote:
> >
> > > We [AS3491] null0'd the IP earlier.  Rest-of-world encouraged to do the
> > > same :/
> >
> >
> >
> > Wrong approach, they are *innocent* in this as are the new targets.
> >
> > insert into your favourite acl:
> > deny udp host 66.230.160.1 neq 53 any eq 53
> > deny udp host 66.230.128.15 neq 53 any eq 53
> >
> > But it's much less work to add a filter on the name server as others
> > have mentioned.
>
>
> Having the world trying to keep up with ACL entries seems futile. Is there
> really nothing to be done about this? (Yes, I know, BCP38, but obviously the
> accomplice providers don't care.)
>
> ~Seth