Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

["Kent W. England" <kwe () 6SigmaNets com>]

At 01:24 PM 9/18/96 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> At 10:43 AM 9/18/96 -0400, Jeff Young wrote:
>
> > i guess the one common thread of this discussion is that whatever
> > must be done, must be done on the edges of the internet.  and that's
> > not a cop out, we have as many edge cases as we have connections to
> > isp's.
>
> No argument here.

If that be the consensus then there is only one way to accomplish
anything and that is for a handful of large backbone providers to begin 
checking and to require that their peers also check source addresses. 
Otherwise it's just an undocumented BCP.

--Kent

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