New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

Thu Sep 19 22:23:41 UTC 1996

At 01:24 PM 9/18/96 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>At 10:43 AM 9/18/96 -0400, Jeff Young wrote:
>
>>
>>i guess the one common thread of this discussion is that whatever
>>must be done, must be done on the edges of the internet.  and that's
>>not a cop out, we have as many edge cases as we have connections to
>>isp's.
>>
>
>No argument here.
>

If that be the consensus then there is only one way to accomplish
anything and that is for a handful of large backbone providers to begin 
checking and to require that their peers also check source addresses. 
Otherwise it's just an undocumented BCP.

--Kent