Re: Denial of service attacks apparently from UUNET Netblocks

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>]

On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 11:09:35PM -0500, John A. Tamplin wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > To belabor the obvious, remember that not all dialups are hosts; what
> > you need to set as the filter on the source addresses is a _netmask_.
>
> And for those, you aren't dynamically assigning the addresses so it is
> easy to build a filter for them.

Usually.  I could see a circumstance where a small LAN was using an
ISDN dial on demand link...  You're not dynamically assigning the
address... but you _are_ dynamically assigning it to a port.

Cheers,
-- jra
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