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Re: ICMP Attacks???????


From: "Alex \"Mr. Worf\" Yuriev" <alex () netaxs com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:39:44 -0400 (EDT)

Short of fixing every network on the internet, does anyone have any useful
advice for what to do when smurfed?  This happened to an FDT customer last
night, and it had our T1 (according to uunet) at about 500% capacity.
Obviously, until the attack stopped, our T1 wasn't too useful.  I'm about
< close to just asking uunet to block all icmp echo replies from coming
into FDT...but I know customers will complain.

Then they will start blasting UDP at you. Trust me, T1 is not that bad. We
periodically have DS-3s eaten up completely but it happens for such a
short time that it cannot really be traced :(

Alex




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