From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 12 13:29:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (ftp.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53748410F for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 13:29:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (tetron02.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA90702; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:29:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:29:58 -0600 (CST) From: Gene Harris To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Protection against dDoS attacks? In-Reply-To: <38A5C792.86CDFF67@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > Olaf Hoyer wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > at: > > > > http://news.excite.com/news/zd/000211/17/if-you-cant > > > > there are some news about some Solaris/Linux software that has been written > > by US agency to protect ccomputers against the agents needes for dDoS attacks. > > But Source will be closed. > > > > Alternatively, another guy offers some detection program... > > > > Any comments? > > > > I'm suspicious of their long-term motives. I also believe that some in > the FBI would like to make the use of such software mandatory. > > I'd almost be willing believe that someone in the government might have > been behind the attacks in the first place. Now, don't go picking on the United Nations! LMAO > > Cheers, > > Jerry Hicks > jhix@mindspring.com > Couldn't resist it, Gene To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message