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Re: Counter DoS


From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:41:43 +0200


Gregory Taylor wrote:


Oh yes, lets not forget the fact that if enough sites have this 'firewall' and one of them gets attacked by other sites using this firewall it'll create a nuclear fission sized chain reaction of looping Denial of Service Attacks that would probably bring most major backbone providers to their knees.

Fortunately people with less clue usually have less bandwidth. Obviously there are exceptions. I would expect to see localized tragedies if something like this would get deployed but predicting death of the internet is clueless.

Pete






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