RootPrompt.org: Distributed Denial Of Service attacks. A proposal based on routing.
Apr 03, 2000, 13:52 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Fernando Schapachnik)
[ Thanks to Noel
for this link. ]
"This paper describes a technique that -hopefully- can be
used to defeat the recent DDOS attacks _in_real_time_. The solution
presented here is based on routing. It requires a certain amount of
extra network infrastructure."
"In order to be ready to a massive DDOS attack, example.com
should change its network structure to something like:
+--------------+
+----e-----+ stub network |
| +--------------+
+--------+ |
-a--| +-+ +---------------+
| | | | +-----------------+
-b--| ISP +-----d------+ example.com's +-----+ www.example.com |
| | | border router | +-----------------+
-c--| | +---------------+
+--------+ 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.1.2
10.0.0.1 and 10.0.1.1
+---------------+
| example.com's |
| DNS server |
| where |
| www=10.0.0.2 |
| and TTL=0 |
+---------------+
"In case a DDOS attack against example.com is detected, the
following actions should be carried on:
1- dial up connection to example.com's externally located DNS
server (possible many of them in order to complicate DDOSing both
www and DNS servers) to make www.example.com point to 10.0.1.2.
2- phone call to ISP to route traffic to 10.0.0.x to the stub
network and start routing the 10.0.1 network. The ISP may also stop
publishing the route to 10.0.0. This probably has a cost on BGP
disaggregation and routing updates, but it may worth it, because as
the routing updates propagate the attack stops nearer its
source."
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