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