[e2e] DDoS attack vs. Spoofing of Source Address

[John Kristoff]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 12:23:27PM -0800, Joe Touch wrote:

> > Many DoS agents have had the ability to randomly fake the source
> > address and of course they commonly come up with a "bogon".
> 
> Sure. That sounds more like a bug in their source address checking code,
> IMO.

If I was to think as an attacker, why would I spend my effort writing
perfect spoofing code when it is clearly not necessary for my attacks
to be effective.  Likewise, if I'm one trying to mitigate the attacks,
why would I focus on trying to stop spoofing?

John