New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Tue Sep 17 15:53:39 UTC 1996


Jeff Rizzo writes:
> Those of us running backbones (well, some of us, anyway) are spending
> a portion of our energies tracing these attacks.  The discussion
> here is proving helpful, and I definitely think it should continue.
> 
> What sort of experiences have people had eliciting cooperation from
> other providers, when attempting to trace?

Largely bad ones :(

> I'm currently attempting to trace one, and have gotten it to the
> edge of our network, but have spent the last twelve hours attempting
> to get cooperation from the NSP at mae-west I've tracked it to.

We need to get some sort of rapid response system going so that people
can know who to call to get cooperation quickly -- the phone tag
problem alone right now is causing significant damage...

Perry





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