SYN floods continue

Wed Sep 11 13:27:22 UTC 1996

I don't know, but since nobody else seems to either, how about a 
router box that detects excessive SYN activity and then automatically 
blocks that ip address for awhile?  I suppose it just means that
the attacker has to vary the source address rapidly.

> Anyway. Point is this: We can't take too much more of this, nor can our
> customers. I have yet to hear *anyone* come up with any ideas even remotely
> reasonable for how to deal with this situation, long term, except for the