With the advent of distributed Denial of Service (DoS) attacks such as Trinoo, TFN, TFN2K and stacheldraht [1], there is an extreme interest in finding solutions that thwart or defeat such attacks. This paper tries to look not just at distributed DoS attacks but distributed attacks in general. The intent is not to devise or recommend protocol revisions, but to come up with useable solutions that could be implemented at a fairly low cost. This paper is also written with the idea that probably 90% of the problems surrounding distributed attacks can be easily solved, with the last 10% requiring some type of long-range strategies or new code to be written.

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