DDOS attacks and Large ISPs doing NAT?

Thu May 2 18:26:13 UTC 2002

On Thu, 02 May 2002 11:06:33 PDT, "Mansey, Jon" said:

> The DDOS discussion is specifically referring to a "live" syn or syn/ack
> attack from hosts that respond to connection requests. A NAT'd cell phone
> wont, cant ever, respond to an unsolicited connection request.

*RING*!! *RING*!!  Oh, I'm sorry, that was the clue phone ringing - it
couldn't be your phone, since it wouldn't answer an unsolicited connection
request....

You were saying?

(To fill in the blanks - get a trojan loaded into the cellphone/PDA combo,
and then send it a page telling it who/what to attack).

-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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