Re: Your counsel on defeating DDOS Attacks

• To: David LeBlanc <dleblanc@microsoft.com>
• Subject: Re: Your counsel on defeating DDOS Attacks
• From: Adam Shostack <adam@HOMEPORT.ORG>
• Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:36:05 -0500
• Cc: "'AlanPaller@AOL.COM'" <AlanPaller@aol.com>, cve-editorial-board-list@lists.mitre.org
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 05:35:13PM -0800, David LeBlanc wrote:
| I'm hitting reply to all intentionally to spur discussion -
[...]
| I also believe that we should come up with a list of suggested best
| practices for someone providing internet services, and some way to encourage
| people to follow them, and perhaps discourage people from ignoring them
| (e.g., not route their packets).

I think that the IETF has come up with some fairly good short
documents on how to secure a system (RFC 2179, for example.)  There
are other RFCs that I can't quickly find which talk about security for
ISPs.

Adam


| [many points I agree strongly with snipped]

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