Re: Counter DoS

["Sam Stickland" <sam_ml () spacething org>]

Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Petri Helenius wrote:
>
> > Gregory Taylor wrote:
> >
> > > Oh yes, lets not forget the fact that if enough sites have this
> > > 'firewall' and one of them gets attacked by other sites using this
> > > firewall it'll create a nuclear fission sized chain reaction of
> > > looping Denial of Service Attacks that would probably bring most
> > > major backbone providers to their knees.
> > Fortunately people with less clue usually have less bandwidth.
>
> When pricing structures and deployment of broadband in the US
> approaches that of Korea and Japan, I think you'll find that that
> isn't the case in the US anymore.

Out of interest, do the people see much in the way of DDOS attacks from
Japan? All that bandwidth and quite a sizable population (130 million) - but
maybe the latency to US and European targets contrains it?

Sam