Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

[vern () ee lbl gov]

> > We most frequently are the zombie/reflector participants
> > in an attack that originates outside our network, to a
> > target outside our network. As many as 8,000 hosts on
> > our network are reflecting SYN floods in the current
> > attacks.
>
> I finally found a paper on this type of attack.  

You might also try:

        "An Analysis of Using Reflectors for Distributed Denial-of-Service
        Attacks," V. Paxson, Computer Communication Review 31(3), July 2001.

        http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/reflectors.CCR.01/index.html
        http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/reflectors.CCR.01.ps.gz
        http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/reflectors.CCR.01.pdf

- Vern