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    New Method to Stop DDoS Attacks

    This is taken directly from the slashdot website. I thought it was very interesting.

    Pushback against DDOS Attacks
    Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 27, @08:49AM
    from the build-a-better-*******-trap dept.
    Huusker writes "Steven Bellovin and others at ATT Research Labs and ICIR have come up with mechanism to stop DDOS attacks. The idea is called Pushback . When the routers get flooded they consult a Unix daemon (/etc/pushbackd) to determine if they are being DDOS'ed. The routers propagate the quench packets back to the sources. The policy and propagation are separate, allowing hardware vendors to concentrate on the quench protocol while the white hats invent ever more clever DDOS detection filters for /etc/pushbackd. The authors of the paper have an initial implementation on FreeBSD."
    I would not normally take an article from a different page, but I thought this one should be posted. I searched the forums and didn't see this one yet.
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    Interesting, but it will probably only work for well known attacks. What will happen when the targets of the attacks will specifically be the systems anti-DDOS?
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    that's just end up being a battle of Bandwidth....the end result is that the Anti-DDOS won't work.....the system will simply be out-numberd....A DDOS is meant to slow down and time-out a server or network...if that server or network then start's working overtime to push-back the information...it'll just cause even more problem's.......

    There was something like this posted some time agoe...although that was about a system where the false data was simple discarded...I can't remember the exact detail's but it was a better alternative than this.....I would get you the link....but I'm too lazy.

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    Didn't think about that...

    Maybe create a "rule" in advance to handle said attacks to anti-DDOS preventative measures?

    Have to think about it more... That could get kinda messy.
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    It seems like in this DDoS they are simply trying to stop the actual server or services from lagging/crashing, but like Noia said there is also the issue of Bandwith being used up in a DDoS attack, eventually(depending on who has the bigger pipe) your pipe will get full and that program wont be any good.

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    I highly doubt any program or mauever could stop DoS/DDoS attacks point blank. Simple as that.

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    I have to agree with Noia that seems to make the most sense, just drop the packets. That will leave more upstream available to send packets for legit. services, right?
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    I have to agree with Noia that seems to make the most sense, just drop the packets. That will leave more upstream available to send packets for legit. services, right?
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    Actually, it's quite possible to make ACL's under Cisco IOS 12.x to do all of this. Between bandwidth scaling, throttling, and source-quench options, it's actually already possible to knock out most of the DOS schemes out there. Of course, actually DOING this is another matter.

    Although the new PUSHBACK scheme seems to be a bit of a better option than what's out there now, I think it is still more an IMPLEMENTATION problem than a TECHNOLOGY one. A lot of network security / network administrator types just see their role as uptime, rather than providing insurance - after all, uptime you can take to management and point at it - it's tangeable. The insurance given by good, solid security measures doesn't EVER become apparent if it's effective. And it's hard to justify this to some PHB-types.

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    Actually, it's quite possible to make ACL's under Cisco IOS 12.x to do all of this. Between bandwidth scaling, throttling, and source-quench options, it's actually already possible to knock out most of the DOS schemes out there. Of course, actually DOING this is another matter.

    Although the new PUSHBACK scheme seems to be a bit of a better option than what's out there now, I think it is still more an IMPLEMENTATION problem than a TECHNOLOGY one. A lot of network security / network administrator types just see their role as uptime, rather than providing insurance - after all, uptime you can take to management and point at it - it's tangeable. The insurance given by good, solid security measures doesn't EVER become apparent if it's effective. And it's hard to justify this to some PHB-types.

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