WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

Mon Aug 4 21:35:19 UTC 2003

> >> Filtering the bogons does help, and everyone should perform anti-spoofing
> >> in the appropriate places.  It isn't, however, a silver bullet.
> > it's necessary but not sufficient.
> 
> anti-spoofing is useful, but vastly insufficient, and hence not necessary
> 
> randy

anti-spoofing eliminates certain avenues of attack allowing one to focus
on remaining avenues, and hence (as Vix stated) is necessary but not
sufficient.