7 Mar
2004
7 Mar
'04
3:48 p.m.
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
actually, it would. universal uRPF would stop some attacks, and it would remove a "plan B" option for some attack-flowcharts. i would *much* rather play defense without facing this latent weapon available to the offense.
I'm agreeing here, okay (yet anoter) example.. smurf attacks. These seem to be non-existent these days so shall we stop disabling 'ip directed-broadcast' on our routers?
smurf attacks are far from 'non-existent' today, however they are not as popular as in 1999-2000-2001. In fact netscan.org still shows almost 9k networks that are 'broken'.