On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 10:14, Ingevaldson, Dan (ISS Atlanta) wrote: > It might be somewhat tricky to block TCP/80 going to windowsupdate.com.
I agree... but then, who needs updates anyways.. *grin* > Regards, > =============================== > Daniel Ingevaldson > Engineering Manager, X-Force R&D > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 404-236-3160 > > Internet Security Systems, Inc. > The Power to Protect > http://www.iss.net > =============================== > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen J. Wilcox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:38 AM > To: Jason Frisvold > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: The impending DDoS storm > > > > > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jason Frisvold wrote: > > > All, > > > > What is everyone doing, if anything, to prevent the apparent > upcoming > > DDoS attack against Microsoft? From what I've been reading, and what > > I've been told, August 16th is the apparent start date... > > > > We're looking for some solution to prevent wasting our network > > resources transporting this traffic, but at the same time trying to > > allow legitimate through... > > > > So, is anyone planning on doing anything? > > See previous discussion on filtering... > > > Other than that experience says if these things turn out to be big > enough to > cause an issue then they quickly burn themselves out anyway > > Steve -- --------------------------- Jason H. Frisvold Backbone Engineering Supervisor Penteledata Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] RedHat Engineer - RHCE # 807302349405893 Cisco Certified - CCNA # CSCO10151622 MySQL Core Certified - ID# 205982910 --------------------------- "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
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