New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

Tue Sep 17 02:02:28 UTC 1996

> I'm not sure it's even possible to analyze the pseudo-random shifting
> attack (among other problems, there will be legitimate traffic in the
> stream, so knowing what SYNs are bad is a pain) in anything approaching
> realtime, so yes, one of the other methods is a much better choice 8-)
> 
> -george william herbert
> gherbert at crl.com

There are other things that one might look at besides trying to analyze and
predict the pseudo-randomness in certain sequences of fields.

But I'm convinced hardening hosts and getting more providers to filter
packets with bogus source IPs is the best way to attack the problem.

Avi