[110454] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ethical DDoS drone network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon Jan 5 19:45:59 2009
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:45:40 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <BD58C734-98F7-4574-A32C-854B4B0A842F@cisco.com>
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Roland Dobbins wrote:
> In my experience, once one has an understanding of the performance
> envelopes and has built a lab which contains examples of the functional
> elements of the system (network infrastructure, servers, apps,
> databases, clients, et. al.), one can extrapolate pretty accurately well
> out to orders of magnitude.
>
> The problem is that many organizations don't do the above prior to
> freezing the design and initiating deployment.
>
Sadly, I think money and time have a lot to do with this. Technology is
a moving target, and everyone is constantly struggling to keep up while
maintaining performance/security.
I've seen this out of software developers, too. I'd say I've seen more
outages due to a simple command typed into a router cli crashing the
router than DDoS traffic. Perhaps I've been lucky with the latter.
Jack
