SYN floods

Wed Sep 18 11:52:12 UTC 1996

At 02:36 PM 9/17/96 -0700, Time Keeper wrote:

>It is also important to remember that the SYN attack is only one in a class
>of one-way denial-of-service attacks. While hardening the servers on the
>net against this kind of attack is important (and is the province of the
>server/OS vendors, not the router or firewall vendors), the most effective
>way to end a denial of service attack is to trace it to its source, and
>terminate it there.
>

And terminate the perpetrator. ,-)

>
>It is time for a Best Common Practice document.
>
>	Erik Fair
>

Erik, I volunteer to co-author. Please contact me if you are interseted
in getting this document put together RSN.

- paul