syn attack and source routing

Sat Sep 21 15:41:45 UTC 1996

Deja vu.

Didn't this same topic crop up a couple of years ago when the
IP spoofing-sky-is-falling scare began? If I'm not remiss, the
discussion drifted towards encouraging end-system networks to
disable source-routing at the entrance to their networks if
they were paranoid, but encourage ISP's & transit providers
to allow it.

- paul

At 01:18 PM 9/18/96 -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:

>
>Worst case, those folks feeling victimized can (and do!) simply shut
>it off.
>
>This is a very different case from that of SYN flooding, where the
>victims are powerless to stop it.
>
>Please don't take our LSRR away from us, it is very useful.
>Campaigning to remove something just because you suspect it might be
>bad is really not nice -- it will result in random clueless people
>believeing you when perchance they should not :-)
>
>--jhawk
>