Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

[dies <dies () pulltheplug com>]

http://www.secsup.org/Tracking/

UUNet uses that...others might as well, Shrug.

Quick, simple, effective tracking of DDoS attacks.

As for identifying attacks, quite honestly large ISP's are typically still
relying on customer notification.  I know that's how we do it.

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Pete Kruckenberg wrote:

> There's been plenty of discussion about DDoS attacks, and my
> IDS system is darn good at identifying them. But what are
> effective methods for large service-provider networks (ie
> ones where a firewall at the front would not be possible) to
> deal with DDoS attacks?
>
> Current method of updating ACLs with the source and/or
> destination are slow and error-prone and hard to maintain
> (especially when the target of the attack is a site that
> users would like to access).
>
> A rather extensive survey of DDoS papers has not resulted in
> much on this topic.
>
> What processes and/or tools are large networks using to
> identify and limit the impact of DDoS attacks?
>
> Thanks.
> Pete.