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Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing
RFC 2827 also known as BCP 38

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Document history

Date By Action
2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['ISP', 'Internet Service Provider', 'IP', 'Internet Protocol', 'DOS', 'Denial of Service']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "D. Senie": changed name from "Daniel Senie" to "D. Senie", cleared country (was "Bolton, MA 01740 USA"), changed order from "-1" to "2"
2026-05-20
(System)
Changed author "P. Ferguson": changed name from "Paul Ferguson" to "P. Ferguson", changed affiliation from "Cisco Systems" to "Cisco Systems, Inc.", cleared country (was "Herndon, …
Changed author "P. Ferguson": changed name from "Paul Ferguson" to "P. Ferguson", changed affiliation from "Cisco Systems" to "Cisco Systems, Inc.", cleared country (was "Herndon, Virginia  20170 USA"), changed order from "0" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2023-12-12
(System) Imported membership of rfc2827 in bcp38 via sync to the rfc-index
2023-12-12
(System) No history of BCP38 is currently available in the datatracker before this point
2017-05-16
(System) Changed document authors from "Paul Ferguson" to "Paul Ferguson, Daniel Senie"
2000-05-01
(System) RFC published