Whither Cometh BCP38?

Mon Jun 11 16:09:18 UTC 2012

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins at arbor.net>

> On Jun 11, 2012, at 10:13 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > Or are spoofed-source-address attacks not, as Vix suggests,
> > significant and trending upwards?
> 
> They're enjoying a renaissance because of attackers leveraging
> spoofing in order to enable DNS, SNMP, and ntp
> reflection/amplification DDoS attacks.

Ok, so your comment confirms that there's still a problem, and Mikael's,
that the tools to stop it from actually being a problem can *reasonably* 
be expected to be in place in a reasonably large number of places where
they're needed.

So, are the knobs actually on?  (I'm guessing "clearly, not")

Why?

Cheers,
-- jra
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