ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

Tue Oct 29 21:11:21 UTC 2002

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Jeff Shultz wrote:

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> On 10/29/2002 at 3:54 PM Jared Mauch wrote:
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> >On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:48:39PM -0800, Jeff Shultz wrote:
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> >> On 10/29/2002 at 3:40 PM Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
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> >> >On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200, Petri Helenius <pete at he.iki.fi>
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> >> >> Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit and receive
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> >> >> using ECHO and ECHO_REPLY packets? Why they are considered
> >> >> harmful?
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> >> >Smurf.
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> >> Okay. What will this do to my user's ping and traceroute times, if
> >> anything? I've got users who tend to panic if their latency hits
> 250ms
> >> between here and the moon (slight exaggeration, but only slight). 
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> >> I just love it when I've got people blaming me because the 20th hop
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> >> a traceroute starts returning  * * * instead of times. 
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> >	that's icmp ttl expired messages.
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> I know that, and I try to explain it to my customers... but it doesn't
> answer the first part of the question - what will throttling ICMP do to
> ping and traceroute times? My gut reaction is that it will a. slow them
> down and/or b. discard a lot of them making the circuit look unreliable
> to ping. But I don't know enough about the underlying technology to be
> sure of that. 

As they say, if you dont set the rate limit too low then you wont encounter
drops under normal operation. 

Steve