[107914] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Atrivo/Intercage: Now Only 1 Upstream
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Gibbard)
Wed Sep 17 19:39:25 2008
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:39:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Gibbard <scg@gibbard.org>
To: David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>
In-Reply-To: <48D13F11.6050600@everydns.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, David Ulevitch wrote:
> Reputation based on src_addr is /so/ 2005. ASN has a few more legs
> perhaps... but...
>
> All the growth in Internet-connected compute clouds (EC2, AppNexus, GoGrid,
> etc.) makes any system based around IP reputation decidedly less useful.
>
> At the end of the day, nobody is going to drop packets for amazon's IP space.
While I can't speak for the others on your list, we have been putting a
fair amount of thought into abuse detection and mitigation at GoGrid. We
are well aware of the problems we would have if our address space were to
end up with a bad reputation. If stuff does get through that shouldn't,
please contact abuse@gogrid.com and we'll take care of it.
-Steve
