Counter DoS

Thu Mar 11 22:20:44 UTC 2004

william(at)elan.net wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
> 
>>Petri Helenius wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Maybe there is a lesson to be learned from many RBL operators. To make 
>>>sure, just send packets to the whole /24 or /16 you got an "attack" 
>>>packet from.
>>
>>Which RBL operators flood /24's or /16's?  What do they flood them
>>with?
> 
> 
> I think he meant that RBLs sometimes include entire /24 in RBL list when 
> only one or two ips are at fault and some would go even highier to include 
> entire ISP allocation. This is probably talking about SPEWs and alike RBLs

I thought "RBL" was a tademark of Abovenet or MAPS or somebody.

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