SANS Flash: Urgent Request For Help In Stopping DOS Attacks (fwd)

[Andy Bach <root () wiwb uscourts gov>]

Hey,

SANS is requesting Internet-wide assistance w/ stopping DOS attack by 
reconfiguring routers.  Anybody looked at the instructions/info and seen 
if it would work?
http://www.sans.org/dosstep/index.htm 

Andy Bach, sys mgr
andy () wiwb uscourts gov

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: The SANS Institute <sans () sans org>
[snip]

The simple steps can be found at the SANS website at the URL
http://www.sans.org/dosstep/index.htm and will keep your site
from contributing to the DOS threat.  Tools will soon be
publicly posted to determine which organizations have and have
not protected their users and which ones have systems that 
still can be used as a threat to the rest of the community.

More than 100 organizations in the SANS community have tested
the guidelines, which were drafted by Mark Krause of UUNET with
help from security experts at most of the other major ISPs and 
at the MITRE organization. The testing has improved them 
enormously. (A huge thank-you goes to the people who did the 
testing.)
[snip]
Alan Paller
Director of Research
SANS Director of Research
sansro () sans org
301-951-0102