On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Graeme Robinson wrote:
> (snip re previous thread....)
> Might be a cool idea to add to the script a log of the IP's being dropped
> that you could then email your ISP to filter out further upstream at their
> routers.
>
> I see an eventual solution to distributed denial of service attacks like
> code red lying in the automated notification and blocking of source IP's at
> the source rather than destination ISP.
which leads to the question... how can one stop all the crap (snow white
et.al.) that is chewing up my expensive band width. Sure it doesn't pose a
security problem as long as the system is properly configured, but I am
paying per meg download. I can't see how I can get my upstream to filter
it (optus in my case), since it arrives randomly from infected hosts. Once
it hits my gateway, I've already paid for it.
Is this just an expense of running the internet? a tax we all pay for
having half wits on the net? or is there something can be done?
David
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
