Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

The coordination aspect is in regards to tracing an attack back to
the perpetrator. The source prefix-based filtering only disallows
an attacker to use bogus source addresses.

- paul

At 11:10 AM 9/22/96 GMT, Peter Dawe wrote:

> ISP implementing filters for packets with false source addresses.

> Why does there need to be co-ordination? Surely most ISPs would implement 
> this now they know there is a problem and they can fix it.
>
> We just need to put out a request to ISPs
>
> I would suggest this is done directly rather than through 'bodies' such as 
> IEPG 
>
> Peter Dawe

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