On Wed, Mar 19, 2036 at 12:35:53PM -0700, Toplez Razer wrote:
It should eliminate 99.9% of DOS attacks!
get off my soapbox! :-) unfortunately, the new breed of ddos is even naughtier than smurf. it relies on compromised hosts on which a daemon is placed to listen to requests, and begin flooding someone else's network. really quite effective, and there isn't just a whole lot of router magic that can save our butts from this. good host security is absolutely essential to prevent the problem, and it's not something where a bunch of rogue geeks can go around pointing fingers and "blacklisting" potential middle-men as easily as they've done with smurf and friends. fortunately, we're all sure that our hosts are not compromised. ;-) -- Sam Thomas Geek Mercenary