SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)

Mon Sep 9 18:29:00 UTC 1996

And let's stop fooling ourselves with all those firewalls and other
security toys - what we really need is cooperation among ISPs and world
peace.

Cheers

Dima

Michael Dillon writes:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > PANIX, a large public access provider in New York, was badly hit with
> > SYN flood attacks from random source addresses over the last few
> > days. It nearly wrecked them.
> > 
> > I think its time for the larger providers to start filtering packets
> > coming from customers so that they only accept packets with the
> > customer's network number on it. 
> 
> I disagree. A better way to do this would be for providers to cooperate to
> track down the people who are doing it and make sure to flood the media
> with press releases when the culprits are arrested. If the cracker
> wannabe's realize that source-spoofed SYN attacks can still be quickly
> traced, they will stop doing it.
> 
> And the cooperation would do the net some good; maybe lead to more
> cooperation down the line.
> 
> Michael Dillon                   -               ISP & Internet Consulting
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