Re: Reporting Little Blue Men

[Karl Denninger <karl () mcs net>]

On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 11:33:44PM -0500, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> At 07:09 PM 1/22/98 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>
> > Yes, it could be, but let's remember; isn't the smurf attack the one
> > that _depends_ on a forged _source_ IP address in order to "work"?
>
> And, as an aside, the draft-ferguson-ingress-filtering-03.txt draft
> has been advanced by the IESG to published as an Informational RFC.
>
> Please go beat people over the head with it, when it is published.
>
> Thank you for your attention,
>
> - paul

We already do source filtering for the majority of our connection customers;
the exceptions are those on full DS1s who have announcement capability
(even if they're not using it).

This *includes*, by the way, our dial customers.....  Its not impossible,
but does require a bit of work.

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