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Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm....
From: "Craig A. Huegen" <chuegen () quadrunner com>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 22:18:12 -0800
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 11:47:59PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: ==>It's my understanding that these recent attacks are DDoS attacks, which ==>really don't need to involve any address spoofing. The MO would look ==>similar to a smurf (many different source addresses bombarding you), but ==>here the negligent (call the lawyers?) party with the hacked Solaris boxes ==>running out-of-the-box configs would not be helped by said RFC, right? Yes and no. The ability to track the perpetrators back to the source would be enough to scare some of these kids away. For those who weren't scared away, the resultant (and easy) traceback and subsequent arrest, conviction, and jail time would provide even more of an example. As you say, though, they could still carry out attacks with non-spoofed IP's. /cah
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- NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Paul Ferguson (Feb 08)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... I Am Not An Isp (Feb 08)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Sam Thomas (Feb 08)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Christian Nielsen (Feb 08)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Charles Sprickman (Feb 08)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Craig A. Huegen (Feb 08)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Forrest W. Christian (Feb 08)
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- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Paul Ferguson (Feb 09)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Charles Sprickman (Feb 08)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... I Am Not An Isp (Feb 08)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Shawn McMahon (Feb 09)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Dan Hollis (Feb 09)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Henry R. Linneweh (Feb 09)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Joe Shaw (Feb 09)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Travis Pugh (Feb 09)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Dan Hollis (Feb 09)
- Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm.... Joe Shaw (Feb 09)