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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1094)	2/8/2000 1:57:00 PM
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Here's an ftp address for the RFC mentioned in the preceding message: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2267.txt RFC 2267: January 1998 "Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing" "Abstract Recent occurrences of various Denial of Service (DoS) attacks which have employed forged source addresses have proven to be a troublesome issue for Internet Service Providers and the Internet community overall. This paper discusses a simple, effective, and straightforward method for using ingress traffic filtering to prohibit DoS attacks which use forged IP addresses to be propagated from 'behind' an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) aggregation point.