[110953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Sat Jan 24 12:51:27 2009
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:24:36 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk-lists@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <497A7DEA.1090605@rollernet.us>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Seth Mattinen wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
> Back to my original question: is there really not a better solution?
This sounds a lot like the conversations which led to the creation of the
original Realtime Blackhole List of spam sources. When was that, 1996?
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J.D. Falk
Return Path Inc
http://www.returnpath.net/
