Re: SYN floods continue

[Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>]

On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Alexis Rosen wrote:

> Anyway. Point is this: We can't take too much more of this, nor can our
> customers. I have yet to hear *anyone* come up with any ideas even remotely
> reasonable for how to deal with this situation, long term, except for the
> filtering that Avi, Perry, and I have been promoting these last few days.
>
> Whether or not existing equipment can handle the job is *IRRELEVANT*. If
> it won't, new equipment must be bought. The net won't survive without it.

Did you ever track down the source of the attacks? If not, why not?


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