well since someone responded.... this idea is a joke, to be
uber blunt about it :)

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, nighty wrote:

> At 01:34 28/03/2002 -0800, BobsKC wrote:
> >I am passing this on from lb aka Fireball .. he seems to want to help
>
> I doubt so, from my point of view but i dont know him,
> added to that, i seriously doubt coder-com has anything to do with that,
> at least .. its not ircu or X dependent.
>
> I just feel like this mailing list is not for passing kiddies messages,
> i ignore him on purpose, its not to be filled by his messages relayed by opers.
>
> thrown like this .. I would say without reflexion .. what will prevent a
> DDoSer to flood
> hop number 24 (195.243.61.88) ?? or they would just hit uplink router, thus
> taking down
> ALOT MORE than "just" the irc server....
>
> I'm maybe wrong but im not sure this could help *unless* the equivalent of
> hop 21 is an OC48
> and you have IANA reserved blocks until the end.
>
> as a last remark, i think that the people running / hosting the undernet
> servers are, in a good majority
> ISP network admins since many years .. I dont know how old this fireball
> is, but i doubt he's really mature,
> or at least was last year or in the last months .. some of the people that
> have been attacked had decades
> of experience in Networking... I think that if that was really helpfull
> (and easy to do for servers ... this
> may also be highly network topology dependent or involve too much
> costs/changes at ISP to be placed)
> and effective it would have already been done.
>
> >Bob
> >
> >[1:29] <lb> anyway..
> >[1:29] <lb> 21  BN-ag1.BN.net.DTAG.DE (62.154.66.46)  179 ms  180 ms  181 ms
> >[1:29] <lb> 22  192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2)  188 ms  191 ms  184 ms
> >[1:29] <lb> 23  192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2)  189 ms  185 ms  183 ms
> >[1:29] <lb> 24  195.243.61.88 (195.243.61.88)  193 ms  187 ms  185 ms
> >[1:29] <lb> check this out a bit.. :)
> > > ok
> >[1:30] <lb> 192.168.0.2
> >[1:30] <lb> the microsoft lan default
> >[1:30] <lb> :)
> >[1:30] <lb> so the router's ip can't be seen..
> >[1:30] <lb> if they do that to undernet servers..
> >[1:30] <lb> it would be a lot harder to packet them..
> >[1:30] <lb> a WHOLE lot..
>

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