Counter DoS

Thu Mar 11 13:41:43 UTC 2004

Gregory Taylor wrote:

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> Oh yes, lets not forget the fact that if enough sites have this 
> 'firewall' and one of them gets attacked by other sites using this 
> firewall it'll create a nuclear fission sized chain reaction of 
> looping Denial of Service Attacks that would probably bring most major 
> backbone providers to their knees.
>
Fortunately people with less clue usually have less bandwidth. Obviously 
there are exceptions. I would expect to see localized tragedies if 
something like this would get deployed but predicting death of the 
internet is clueless.

Pete

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