RE: Yahoo! Lessons Learned

["Charley Kline" <kline () uiuc edu>]

> > it rather depends on whether you consider dsl to be dialup.  and they
> > don't have to be slaves.  i could be a ddos *controller* over a 2400
> > baud modem.  :)
>
> for which source filtering would do squat.  <sigh^2>


...except force the controller to use its real IP address and thus make it
more traceable. Most ICMP- and UDP-triggered flooders on this campus get
their control messages from nonsense IP addresses.

/cvk