Distributed denial of service attacks, where commandeered machines are used
in concert to attack a single server or network. Often there's little if
anything you can do about a DDOS attack. If you can identify the IP
addresses of the attacking machines, you can possibly get your upstream
provider to block those addresses. This usually takes a lot of coordination
and cooperation on the part of the provider. This assumes that the upstream
provider has the bandwidth capacity to absorb the attack; if not, they have
to try doing the same with _their_ upstream. One (good?) thing about DDOS
attacks is that usually someone has to get a bug up their butt and decide to
attack your servers. It's seldom random, as are the script probes that
you're probably seeing in your logs.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Lugassy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: DOSS Attacks (Was: Got the fellow, but....)
> Sorry for the way newbie q. here but what are those DOSS
> attacks? I've heard that there is no solution for them. true?
>
> Michael.
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