Re: Denial of service
pardon my ignorance, but i was wondering what a 'smurf magnifier' was...
thanks
Brian Wolfe wrote:
> The best thing you can do as a service provider is place a firewall on your outbound links and make sure all packets are legit. 2nd. review your own lan to make sure it can't be used as a smurf magnifier.
>
> Brian Wolfe
> TerraBox.com
>
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 02:09:41PM +0000, Darren Cook wrote:
> > Denial of service attacks are suddenly in the news, with attacks on Yahoo
> > and others.
> >
> > I've thought that there is not much you can do to defend against these
> > attacks. Is this the case? What is the best you can do? And if the best
> > requires something special, what is the best with a linux firewall and web
> > server?
> >
> > Darren
> >
> >
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