Re: DoS Attacks, Detecting the Source, and Service Providers

From: H C <keydet89(at)yahoo.com>
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 15:44:06 EST

Hamid,  

> Maybe a newbie question, but I was wondering if
cooperate?

Requirement? Not hardly. If you're experiencing an attack, you can (a) configure your own systems (routers, f/ws) to protect against it, and (b) *ask* your ISP to do the same.

> I was wondering if there are certain procedures to
> detect the source of attacks?

What attacks? Things like ICMP DoS and even UDP-based attacks like Slammer are relatively easy to spoof...TCP-based attacks (except for things like SYN flooding) are more difficult.

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