[REBOL] Re: The Attacks on GRC.COM
From: doublec:acc at: 6-Jun-2001 11:16
Installing a firewall wouldn't have done him any good because it was the bandwidth over
his T1 lines that was being drained. A firewall would stop the packets getting through
but the traffic would still travel over the T1 lines resulting in effectively being knocked
off the internet. That's why the filtering was done at a level before the T1 lines were
reached.
That's why a firewall is not always an effective solution. I have an ADSL line that I
pay for by volume (Telecom Jetstream) and if an attack like that was directed at my machine
it would do not harm...except I'd not be able to use the internet due to all my bandwidth
being used even though my firewall would stop it - and I'd be paying for the huge volume
of traffic going into my modem. The problem is worse with things like Saturn Cable where
you have a static IP address. It's enough to make you go back to dial up modem.
Chris.
>>> [gchiu--compkarori--co--nz] 06/05 8:18 >>>
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 21:20:18 -0700
Pretty scary stuff. Though I wonder why if he knew which
PCs were attacking him, and he had access to that IRC
channel, he just couldn't send commands to the bots to stop
the attack, or better still, to download a firewall and
install it!