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john heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Thu Mar 15 00:28:43 UTC 2001


Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:07:51PM -0800, Randy Bush:
> > i agree that the smaller guys with the least resources would want to
> > reduce their load the most, they are the least likely to be able to do
> > something like this.  almost all of these aggregation techniques are only
> > useful for sender-side.
> 
> perhaps you've forgotten the idr draft on receivers sending filters to
> senders.
> 
> now, think of what the push-back folk are talking about for ddos, and think
> of useless (to whom!) de-aggregation as a dos.

pointers, please.  seems to me that the knobs already exist to kill
smurf-like dos attacks; operators are just too damn lazy to use them.




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