is any active working group persuing this matter seriously? -rgds Alok ----- Original Message ----- From: alok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 4:26 AM Subject: Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks
>The first, dropping broadcasts destined to your customers, is possibly >doable, but not trivial. ------> IGP learnt networks .. a small tweaky bit which learns broadcast addresses via the networks in the IGP wud help (again summarization wud make it bad) >The second, catching all broadcasts coming >in, out, or just passing through, is pretty much impossible. -----> a very small percentage cud be blocked if u were willing to link this to BGP learnt networks..at least those are "complete networks", not subnetted.... ofcourse its a very small portion, mebbe u cud ask guys to send more specific BGP routes from now.... -A