Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:29:07 GMT, "Christopher L. Morrow" said:
> > How quickly is quickly? Often times as has been my recent experience
> > (part of my motivation for posting this thread) the flood is over before
> > one can get a human being on the phone.
>
> Once the call arrives and the problem is deduced it can be tracked in a
> matter of minutes, like 6-10 at the fastest...

Yes, but *YOUR* crew has a reputation for having a clue.  I'm willing to
bet that "once the call arrives" is a challenge for a lot of smaller ISPs
that don't even *HAVE* a security team, and "the problem is deduced" is
a challenge for the ones that have a team that don't have a clue.

We see a *LOT* of postings here "anybody know a clueful at XYZ, we've been
DDoS'ed for 36 hours"....
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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