F�lix Alc�ntara
1-(809)-854-9853
E-mail: speakz@speakz.org
Speakz @IRC

On 10-Mar-2006, at 08:31, Felix Alcantara wrote:

> Indeed Denial of Service Attacks are extremely damaging for small 
> networks.

I had occasion to track a DoS against a nameserver yesterday, which 
was the first one I've looked at in some time (small attacks tend to 
go unnoticed in the network in question, and larger ones are 
generally tracked by other people).

I was supremely out-of-practice, and it took a lot longer to figure 
out what was happening that it should have done.

Depending on the size of your network (and the size of your ops team) 
it almost seems sensible to host a DoS magnet in your network, so 
that you get regular practice at identifying and mitigating the 
problem. An Undernet server would do quite nicely for this :-)

Dealing with attack traffic as a routine exercise every other day 
surely beats multi-day panic and fumbling sessions every six months.


Joe