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From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To: Mike Tsirulnikov <mt@cns.ucla.edu>
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Subject: Re: Panix Attack: synflooding and source routing?
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On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Mike Tsirulnikov wrote:
>
> Why don't you move your mail gateway to another machine or
> change the identity of the current one?

    Moving your mail server's IP address around isn't a trivial task.
Besides, what's to prevent the hacker from simply synflooding the new
IP?
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"