FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

Tue Jan 21 01:22:03 UTC 2003

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Avleen Vig wrote:
> > Doesn't this stop kazaa/morpheus/gnutella/FTP/<some aim stuff like private
> > chats>? This is a problematic setup, and woudl require the cable modem
> > provider to maintain a quickly changing 'firewall' :( I understand the
> > want to do it, but I'm not sure its practical to see it happen based
> > solely on the hassle factor :( Hmm, security, "you gotta pay to play"
> > (Some famous man once said that I believe)
>
> Indeed it does break that. P2P clients: Mostly transfer illegal content.
> As much as a lot of people love using these, I'm sure most realise they're
> on borrowed time in their current state.
> And I'm sure that if they were gone tomorrow, I'm sure they'd be back in
> another fashion soon.

That may be, but its still a problem... I believe http and ftp also
transfer illegal content, should we shut them down? Email too? Often there
is illegal content  in email. :(

> Ftp/HTTP etc I believe most cable providers currently block these anyway
> :-)
>

for FTP I was talking about non-passive data traffic.