Re: [Sheflug] Bit of a Goodie

[Andy Smith <nospam [at] strugglers.net>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:52:05AM +0100, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> This old chestnut just came in from the Phoenix LUG list.......
> 
> http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
> 
> I thought it was quite a good one so I thought I'd send it in.

This was mentioned on one of the security focus lists recently, I
think it was focus linux..

It's interesting but a little tabloid in nature.  A number of people
pointed out that

a) If his ISP took 17 hours to deal with this kind of stuff then
   either he needs a new ISP, or maybe he was being very obstructive
   to them.

b) There was no need to deny all UDP.. this broke his DNS and other
   services when all attacks were hitting one UDP port that he could
   have filtered.

c) It was a very bad idea to help the script kiddie with his bots
   (which were no doubt used to inflict pain on other people) just
   to gain cred in the kiddie community.

-- 
Andy Smith
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