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To: Spartex who wrote (30242)	2/10/2000 11:27:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (3) of 42771

Actually, regarding BorderManager and Denial of Service attacks.... When I went the the vendor pre-release bootcamp of BorderManager, we were told that the beta of BM had a bug in it that Novell discovered when testing on their own WWW.NOVELL.COM production site. Aparently the BM server was hit by a denial of service attack by some hacker (dont remember the location of the related ISP). The problem was that the BM bug made an attempt to respond to the attack and did not just respond with one packet - it absolutely flooded response packets back to the source with as much bandwidth as could fit through the pipe. Now considering that Novell's web site is serviced by at least 1 T3 link (I believe its 2 or 3), it didnt take long for the ISP of the hacker to call Novell and asked why Novell's site was absolutely blowing the ISP out of the water by its own form of "denial of service" response (although completely by accident). Unfortunately since Novell is a member of the Internet Security association (dont recall the exact name), they were forced to report and repair the bug within a very short timeframe (I believe 2 days). But the Novell trainer asked the audience "who here feels that we should leave the bug in the code?" - everyone put up their hands. Dont know how true the story was but it was a good one and quite related to this recent set of events. :)) Cheers! Toy

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