Re: DDOS prevention offensive.

[Jason Slagle <raistlin () tacorp net>]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Bill Larson wrote:

> Well to sum it up in one sentence. If you eliminate the bogus addresses, you
> can then target the actual zombie machines used to attack the site and
> eventually eliminate the risk via patching or null route them. So filtering
> bogus addresses, non-routable addresses, and the addresses, which do not
> belong to your net blocks, would serve to combat the denial of service
> attacks.


I believe the attacks in question are actually non-spoofed.

It's getting the source networks to remove the boxes that is the
problem.  Most of them are .edu.

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