RE: Nimda et.al. versus ISP responsibility

From: Jay D. Dyson (jdysonat_private)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 17:01:23 PDT

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    On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
    
    > > I think there is a mid-ground wherein all ISPs are responsible
    > > for both ingress and egress filtering of all traffic on their
    > > network to ensure it is valid traffic (e.g.., making sure that 
    > > customer A cannot inject traffic into the network with a source
    > > IP that doesn't belong to them...nearly eliminating spoofing) 
    > > but stopping short of scanning payloads of packets.
    > 
    > Come on!  Get real!
    > Any properly formed IP packet is valid traffic!
    
    	With all due respect, you are so horribly misinformed that it's
    not even funny.  The original author is quite correct that ISPs are indeed
    responsible for ingress and egress filtering in order to diminish the
    likelihood of spoofed packets.
    
    	This isn't rocket science.  Anyone claiming that ISPs shouldn't be
    taking such steps is either ignorant, misguided, or just plain opposed to
    common-sense security practices.  In any case, such people definitely
    shouldn't be in charge of any netblock.  They're a hazard to themselves
    and the 'net overall.
    
    - -Jay
    
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