New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

Tue Sep 17 14:58:28 UTC 1996

On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> Michael Dillon writes:
> > On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Alan Hannan wrote:
> > 
> > >   Could we drop the SYN/Denial thread?  It's becoming rather base.
> > 
> > The discussion could always be moved to the firewalls list.
> 
> I would suggest that it not be. This is actually a crisis that has to
> be solved by action taken by service providers working together, and
> does not involve conventional firewalls per se. I would say that it
> is therefore germane to Nanog. 

If we're voting, I'd say inet-access.  SYN attacks and defense are more 
centered on the ISP's than the backbones.

--- David Miller
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