Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm....

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> As Charles says, from what I've read of the CERT advisories, there is
> nothing proactive one can really do for these DDos attacks, besides
> securing machines from being hacked, correct?

yes, that is essential.  but also, what has to be done is to go to all
dedicated cpe and prevent source spoofing, see RFC 2267.

[ do not be distracted by the smurf etc. red herring sub-discussions ]

randy