RFC 4732: Internet Denial-of-Service Considerations

This document provides an overview of possible avenues for denial-of-service (DoS) attack on Internet systems. The aim is to encourage protocol designers and…

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Outgoing relationships (16 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Normative reference — RFC 4346: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.1
Normative reference — RFC 4601: Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
Normative reference — RFC 2385: Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option
Normative reference — RFC 2439: BGP Route Flap Damping
Normative reference — RFC 1075: Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 2918: Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
Normative reference — RFC 3682: The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)
Informative reference — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3550: RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
Informative reference — RFC 4566: SDP: Session Description Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4251: The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 3618: Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
Informative reference — RFC 1058: Routing Information Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3768: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Informative reference — RFC 2349: TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options

Incoming relationships (34 related RFCs)

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 8996: Deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6202: Known Issues and Best Practices for the Use of Long Polling and Streaming in Bidirectional HTTP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6120: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6952: Analysis of BGP, LDP, PCEP, and MSDP Issues According to the Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols (KARP) Design Guide
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6960: X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7481: Security Services for the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6583: Operational Neighbor Discovery Problems
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6716: Definition of the Opus Audio Codec
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6797: HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6121: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6324: Routing Loop Attack Using IPv6 Automatic Tunnels: Problem Statement and Proposed Mitigations
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6620: FCFS SAVI: First-Come, First-Served Source Address Validation Improvement for Locally Assigned IPv6 Addresses
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7416: A Security Threat Analysis for the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPLs)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6062: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Extensions for TCP Allocations
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6386: VP8 Data Format and Decoding Guide
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6398: IP Router Alert Considerations and Usage
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8811: DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Architecture
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6329: IS-IS Extensions Supporting IEEE 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6013: TCP Cookie Transactions (TCPCT)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6503: Centralized Conferencing Manipulation Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7094: Architectural Considerations of IP Anycast
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8075: Guidelines for Mapping Implementations: HTTP to the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9244: Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Telemetry
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6277: Online Certificate Status Protocol Algorithm Agility
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6357: Design Considerations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Overload Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6429: TCP Sender Clarification for Persist Condition
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6404: Session PEERing for Multimedia INTerconnect (SPEERMINT) Security Threats and Suggested Countermeasures
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8954: Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) Nonce Extension
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9520: Negative Caching of DNS Resolution Failures
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9559: Matroska Media Container Format Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6569: Guidelines for Development of an Audio Codec within the IETF
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7845: Ogg Encapsulation for the Opus Audio Codec
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8759: RTP Payload for Timed Text Markup Language (TTML)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9284: Multihoming Deployment Considerations for DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS)