“Unless you lived under a rock for the past week you’ve
heard of the distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS) against
some of the top Internet web sites. In particular these
attacks were of the bandwidth consumption type. Some of the network
providers involved claim to have been upwards of 1 Gb/s
traffic.”
“These attacks are not knew. David Dittrich has performed an
excellent job dissecting these attacks and the tools that enable
them….”
“These attack are made possible because of fundamental design
decisions at the IP protocol level. It does not provide strong
authentication of the source of a packet, and it only provides a
best effort service with no resource allocation protocol.”