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RE: Denial of service
From: David C Niemi <niemi () tux org>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:01:35 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Ted Doty wrote:
I personally don't think that you can protect yourself from Denial Of Service attacks in an Internet environment, since there are so many autonomous domains of control.
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If your network positively has to be up for mission critical applications, don't connect it to the Internet.
Nowadays a lot of companies have mission-critical applications which *depend on* the Internet. And for good business reasons, like making or saving a lot of money. Does this mean they expect to have 100% uptime for these applications? Does this mean you should gratuitously rely on the Internet for critical communications? Of course not. But they do want their availability to be high, and disconnecting from the Internet makes no economic sense. It is very important to consider, and where it is not too costly, address, DoS attacks. Of course you can't eliminate them 100%, but you can make your systems far more robust than if you didn't try. In the process you protect yourself from quite a few modes of failure which result from random bugs and accidents, not just concerted malicious attacks. --- David C Niemi ---niemi at tux.org--- Reston, Virginia, USA --- Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo.
Current thread:
- Denial of service City (Aug 17)
- Re: Denial of service Joseph S. D. Yao (Aug 18)
- Re: Denial of service Kevin T. Shivers (Aug 18)
- RE: Denial of service Tupshin Harper (Aug 18)
- Re: Denial of service Roger Nebel (Aug 19)
- RE: Denial of service Ted Doty (Aug 19)
- RE: Denial of service David C Niemi (Aug 19)
- RE: Denial of service Ted Doty (Aug 23)
- RE: Denial of service David C Niemi (Aug 23)
- RE: Denial of service Marcus J. Ranum (Aug 23)
- Re: Denial of service ICMan (Aug 19)
- Re: Denial of service Ted Doty (Aug 23)
- Re: Denial of service Gigi Sullivan (Aug 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Denial of service HASSAN . KARIM (Aug 19)
- Re: Denial of service Frank de Jong (Aug 19)