On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Dan Rabb wrote:
I agree that if this could be properly executed it would "mitigate" the effect to some parties, but at the same time, aren't you simply giving the attaker what he wants? You are essentially finishing what he started by completing the Denial of Service.
By finishing rather quickly what the attacker started, you save the rest of the network on the receiving end of the attack. i.e. say some dialup user or colocated server on your network is being smurfed. Would you rather the attack go on for an hour or two or three, cripling your entire network, or sacrifice the target so that the rest of your network is unaffected? ----don't waste your cpu, crack rc5...www.distributed.net team enzo--- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| Spammers will be winnuked or System Administrator | nestea'd...whatever it takes Atlantic Net | to get the job done. _________http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key__________