From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 12 15:17:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 846E03D7C; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:17:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA80049; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:15:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:15:57 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Olaf Hoyer Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Protection against dDoS attacks? In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000212173227.00bb7ad0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> 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, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > 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. Actually these are programs to check whether you're running some of the common DDoS agents - it doesn't protect against them, i.e. stop you from being vulnerable to infection by them (since they're installed manually by crackers). To protect against them you need to actually secure your machine and your network, heaven forbid :-) > Any comments? There was a post to bugtraq by aleph1 which discusses the whole DDoS issue and what tools are currently available - if you'd like I could forward it to you. Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message