Re: FYI: Major Denial of Service Attack Hits San Francisco site...

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From: Samuel Lam
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:00

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In article <59bcdn$api@fountain.mindlink.net>, a00344@giant.mindlink.net
 (Tom Klok) wrote:
>In article <199612181921.LAA15645@arbutus.netcom.ubc.ca>,
> Mike Bluett <mbluett@netcom.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>BCNet contacted the network manager for this site Monday morning and
>>worked with the site to implement a filtering solution that would reduce
>>the possibility of another similar attack.
>
>Has BCNet now applied appropriate filters on the link to CA*Net?  Has
>CA*Net done the same down to MCI?
>
>Tom Klok                                              Tom.Klok@iSTAR.ca
>Network Administration                               iSTAR internet inc.

To be fair to BCnet, one should also ask if iSTAR does this very
same outbound filtering on its two upstream T3 links to MCI.

I'm not trying to defend BCnet, they _should_ know better (long ago)
as they've been in this business for well over 40 web years...

...Sam
-- 
<skl@ScalableNetwork.com> -- Scalable Network Systems Ltd.

Network Failure Analysis Lab, a division of Scalable Network Systems Ltd.

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From: skl@news.ScalableNetwork.com (Samuel Lam)
Subject: Re: FYI: Major Denial of Service Attack Hits San Francisco site...
Date: 1996/12/19
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