Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here... | From | Florian Weimer <> | Date | Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:15:21 +0200 |
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Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:
> If everybody (or at least the bigger knots) filters spoofed traffic, > this ceases to be a problem. And that solves a shipload of other > problems, so...
There isn't much incentive to deploy filters so that other people don't suffer. So it takes a long time until it's almost universally implemented. (We catch less backscatter from DDoS attacks than a few years ago, so the situation may actually be improving.)
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