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Tracing Anonymous Packets to Their Approximate Source

Overview Most denial-of-service attacks are characterized by a flood of packets with random, apparently valid source addresses. These addresses are spoofed, created by a malicious program running on an unknown host, and carried by packets that bear no clues that could be used to determine their originating host. Identifying the source of such an attack requires tracing the packets back to the source hop by hop. Current approaches for tracing these attacks require the tedious continued attention and cooperation of each intermediate Internet Service Provider (ISP). This is not always easy given the world-wide scope of the Internet.

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Publisher	Silicon Defense	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	December 2000	Downloads	15
Format	White Papers
Topics	Denial of Service

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