Re: [dhcwg] Lifetime draft: refresh time should never be more than IRT_DEFAULT

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Tue, 09 November 2004 19:19 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com>
Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Lifetime draft: refresh time should never be more than IRT_DEFAULT
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:06:29 -0500
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On Nov 9, 2004, at 1:15 PM, kck@netcom.com wrote:
> The amount of damage that can be done in 1 day or even 1 hour is 
> great. Not sure a TTL is really the device
> to protect against a DoS attack

What you say is true, but not compelling.   I would rather that 
something that can be accomplished with ten minutes' access to the 
network not last indefinitely - it's better for a machine to be offline 
for a day than for an unbounded period of time.


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