[108370] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 143.228.0.0/16 and house.gov
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Wed Oct 1 04:35:34 2008
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:05:23 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Ernie Rubi" <ernesto@cs.fiu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <FE621FCB-CD4F-41A5-906B-847FDC48A611@cs.fiu.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Some political action groups probably decided to step up the astroturfing.
You know, enter your email address here and we'll send out some
boilerplate nonsense to a bunch of congressmen and senators.
Block or firewall the worst of them, whether left or right leaning,
and I guess that should leave the servers clear for real users ...
--srs
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Ernie Rubi <ernesto@cs.fiu.edu> wrote:
> Hi folks, just musing...
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> From an ops perspective, wonder just how much traffic caused:
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> "This morning, our engineers sounded the alarms ... and we have installed a
> digital version of a traffic cop. We enacted stopgaps that we planned for
> last night. We had hoped we didn't have to."
> --Jeff Ventura, communications director for the House's chief
> administrator. (from
> http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/30/congress.website/index.html)
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> Don't .govs have enough b/w or at least ability to add b/w in order to
> satisfy their 'public outreach/information' role? (not a rhetorical
> question...hehe)
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> It also seems to me that adding load balancing, firewall, throttling, etc
> methods for traffic shaping might actually make the problem worse by adding
> yet another layer(s) of hardware/software that may be prone to bottlenecking
> or overloading.
>
> whaddayathink?
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> Ernie M. Rubi
> Network Engineer
> AMPATH/CIARA
> Florida International Univ, Miami
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
