Re: syn attack and source routing

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

Deja vu.

Didn't this same topic crop up a couple of years ago when the
IP spoofing-sky-is-falling scare began? If I'm not remiss, the
discussion drifted towards encouraging end-system networks to
disable source-routing at the entrance to their networks if
they were paranoid, but encourage ISP's & transit providers
to allow it.

- paul

At 01:18 PM 9/18/96 -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:

> Worst case, those folks feeling victimized can (and do!) simply shut
> it off.
>
> This is a very different case from that of SYN flooding, where the
> victims are powerless to stop it.
>
> Please don't take our LSRR away from us, it is very useful.
> Campaigning to remove something just because you suspect it might be
> bad is really not nice -- it will result in random clueless people
> believeing you when perchance they should not :-)
>
> --jhawk

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