[110937] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Fri Jan 23 21:17:56 2009
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:17:41 -0600 (CST)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
In-Reply-To: <16720fe00901231813k2223491anf02f81abaeb9a389@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
> I respectfully disagree. Network engineers have to keep up with many
> tasks and preventing DoS/DDoS should be the responsibility of
> everyone. I see more folks worried about spam than they are actual
> security.
Because non of us wantsto spend the next two days working on fixing mail
for our organizations.
That said, when speaking of DDoS, I believe they are mostly the same
bots.
And yes, while there is a lot we can do to mitigate DDoS, we are that
helpless. All our strategies show as much.
Gadi.
