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Re: Using unallocated address space - for DoS?


From: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <map () internet org ph>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:32:48 +0800


On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:21:32AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
You don't have to break into the "right" router; you just have to start 
announcing the networks in a way that your peers don't -- can't -- 
detect is improper.


I did not mean that the network operator was malicious.  I meant, in the same
way that vulnerable servers are broken into and used for DoS, can routers
be broken into and do DoS via blackholes?  I think it is hard unless you 
know the right combination of vulnerable router (sniffable LAN?) and
unprotected upstream or peer.


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