On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Stephen M Jones wrote:
> help .. or are they?  Does anyone have any thoughts of how to combat 
> DOS/DDOS attacks or even tracing these with NetBSD?  I did try writing
> firewall rules for the IPs that I did get hoping that a few of them might
> be actual sources .. no luck there.  

There are two tools in pkgsrc that are intended to help detecting some
DDoS attacks. Recently, I also found snort very interresting in detecting
incoming "interresting" packets. 


 - Hubert

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