Real-Time Mitigation of Denial of Service Attacks Now Available With AT&T

Wed Jun 2 15:53:56 UTC 2004

>>>>> "Jon" == Jon R Kibler <Jon.Kibler at aset.com> writes:

 Jon> The sad fact is that simple ingress and egress filtering would
 Jon> eliminate the majority of bogus traffic on the Internet --
 Jon> including (D)DoS attacks. If all ISPs would simply drop all
 Jon> outbound packets whose source address is not a valid IP for the
 Jon> subnet of origin, and all inbound packets that do not have valid
 Jon> source IP addresses, the DDoS problem would be (for all intents
 Jon> and purposes) fixed.

The majority of the DDoS traffic that's been received here over the
past year has had 100% valid and accurate source IP addresses.

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Andrew, Supernews
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